ceiling lights & chandeliers
the glass of time the secret life of miss esperanza gorst
like its beguiling and intelligent new york times book review predecessor the glass of time is a page turning period mystery about identity the nature of secrets and what happens when past obsessions impose themselves on an unwilling present . in the autumn of 1876 nineteen year old orphan esperanza gorst arrives at the great country house of evenwood to become a ladys maid to the twenty sixth baroness tansor . but esperanza is no ordinary servant . she has been sent by her guardian the mysterious madame de lorme to uncover the secrets that her new mistress has sought to conceal and to set right a past injustice in which esperanzas own life is bound up . at evenwood she meets lady tansors two dashing sons perseus and randolph and finds herself enmeshed in a complicated web of seduction intrigue deceit betrayal and murder . few writers are as gifted at evoking the sensibility of the nineteenth century as michael cox who has made the world of charles dickens and wilkie collins his own .