The Keeper of Glass: 1

1938. In a research cell near Wewelsburg Castle, a glazier named August Deeks is ordered to seal something into a shard of blue-grey glass. He is not told what. He is not told why. He only knows that whatever he has helped bind will, eventually, need a name - and a body to wear it against. 1948. In the rubble of a bombed-out house in Manor Park, ten-year-old Betty finds that glass in the dirt. The strange watchmender on the corner sets it into a necklace and tells her only this: it wasn't doing anyone any good sitting in a drawer. For eighty years the glass moves from throat to throat - through a girl who stops being afraid of a German riverbank, a hospital clerk who discovers exactly what a single decision is worth, and finally to Sarah, sorting through her late grandmother's things, who assumes the old necklace in the biscuit tin is nothing more than costume jewellery. She is wrong. And somebody else already knows it. Nomine vincitur - it is bound by the name. THE KEEPER OF GLASS moves between 1938 Germany and the present day, following one object through five women's hands and one very patient, very reasonable stranger determined