Crys, a talented young glassmaker, and her devoted assistant Lukas, live under the strict Communist regime of Czechoslovakia. Between them, they make stunning pieces of Bohemian glass in the shadow of resistance, political unrest and dangerous whispers of revolution.

In a concurrent narrative, we find Crys some years later living on the isolated north Norfolk coast with Ben, a would-be author as he struggles with his first novel and the new relationship he has with the mercurial Crys, who has fled her homeland after the Revolution and is about to give birth to a baby.

The chapters alternate between the historical narrative provided by Lukas, and the story of Ben and Crys. Both reveal the complicated process of glassmaking; both paint vivid pictures of Crys's skill in handling the red hot glass; both gradually reveal how her life has been affected by her terrible past.

As Lukas's narrative gathers pace and he eventually follows Crys to England where their paths fatally collide, we discover the real reason for his determination to find her and exact his cruel revenge.

A story of love, loss and longing, nothing is as it seems, and the mystery at the heart of the story remains firmly rooted in the very substance with which the hot glass is shaped, formed and moulded.

Photographer: Tony Hayter
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