# The Glass Ocean

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- Book: [The Glass Ocean](https://www.bookquiver.com/lori-baker/the-glass-ocean) ([The Glass Ocean.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/lori-baker/the-glass-ocean.md))
- Authors: [Lori Baker](https://www.bookquiver.com/lori-baker)
- Publisher: virago
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0552-591-6
- Published: 2013-08-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The Glass Ocean is a story of becoming. Flamehaired, six-foot-two in stocking feet, newly orphaned Carlotta Dell'oro recounts the lives of her parents - solitary glassmaker Leonardo Dell'oro and beautiful, unreachable Clotilde Girard - and discovers in their loves and losses, their omissions and obsessions, the circumstances of her abandonment and the weight of her inheritance. With a master artisan's patience and exquisite craft, debut novelist Lori Baker has created a gemlike Victorian world, a place where mistakes of the past reappear in the future, art can destroy, and family is not to be trusted.