{"product_id":"a-map-of-glassbooks","title":"A Map of Glass","description":"Jane Urquhart’s stunning new novel weaves two parallel stories, one set in contemporary  Toronto and Prince Edward County, Ontario, the other in the nineteenth century on  the northern shores of  Lake Ontario.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sylvia Bradley was rescued from her parents’  house by a doctor attracted to and challenged by her withdrawn ways. Their subsequent  marriage has nourished her, but ultimately her husband’s care has formed a kind of  prison. When she meets Andrew Woodman, a historical geographer, her world changes.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A year after Andrew’s death, Sylvia makes an unlikely connection with Jerome McNaughton,  a young Toronto artist whose discovery of Andrew’s body on a small island at the  mouth of the St. Lawrence River unlocks a secret in his own past. After Sylvia finds  Jerome in Toronto, she shares with him the story of her unusual childhood and of  her devastating and ecstatic affair with Andrew, a man whose life was irrevocably  affected by the decisions of the past. At the breathtaking centre of the novel is  the compelling tale of Andrew’s forebears. We meet his great-great-grandfather, Joseph  Woodman, whose ambitions brought him from England to the northeastern shores of Lake  Ontario, during the days of the flourishing timber and shipbuilding industries; Joseph’s practical, independent and isolated daughter, Annabel; and his son, Branwell, an  innkeeper and a painter. It is Branwell’s eventual liaison with an orphaned French-Canadian  woman that begins the family’s new generation and sets the stage for future events.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A novel about loss and the transitory nature of place, \u003ci\u003eA Map of Glass\u003c\/i\u003e is vivid  with evocative prose and haunting imagery—a lake of light on a wooden table; a  hotel gradually buried by sand; a fully clothed  man frozen in an iceberg; a blind  woman tracing her fingers over a tactile map. Containing all of the elements for  which Jane Urquhart’s writing is celebrated, it stands as her richest, most accomplished  novel to date.","brand":"Urquhart, Jane","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":46418264785120,"sku":"","price":12.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_3e7cc234-ed4b-4f24-b720-a18886ecf1c2.jpg?v=1728309030","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/a-map-of-glassbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}