• The Cruelty of Beauty: a page-turning novel of obsession and suspense

  • Sep 19 2020
  • Length: 6 mins
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The Cruelty of Beauty: a page-turning novel of obsession and suspense

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  • A beautiful glassmaker. Two damaged men who love her. Set in exotic Bohemia and the wilderness of an English coast, this is a story of obsession and passion and fear…
     
    Wendy Holden explains where she found the unlikely inspiration for her latest novel, The Cruelty of Beauty, set in pre-revolution Czechoslovakia and Norfolk. 'A seed had been planted in my writer’s imagination - the nucleus of a yellow-green flower that would blossom into my next novel. What if I created a glassmaker as a central character, a young woman who worked with uranium glass yet didn’t fully appreciate how dangerous it was? The more I thought about it, the more the seed germinated into a fully-grown bloom.....'
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