<p>Jane Urquhart’s stunning new novel weaves two parallel stories set a century apart. </p> <p>Sylvia Bradley was rescued from her parents’ house by marriage to a doctor whose care has both nourished and imprisoned her. When she meets Andrew Woodman a historical geographer her world changes through their devastating and ecstatic affair.</p> <p>A year after Andrew’s death Sylvia tells this story to Jerome McNaughton a young artist whose discovery of Andrew’s body unlocks a secret in his own past. At the center of the novel is the tale of Andrew’s grandfather Branwell an innkeeper and a painter whose liaison with an orphaned French-Canadian woman sets the stage for future events.</p> <p>A novel about loss and the transitory nature of place <em>A Map of Glass</em> is vivid with the evocative prose and haunting imagery for which Jane Urquhart’s writing is celebrated.</p>