The Cartographer’s Daughter
A young woman in 1960s Edinburgh discovers her father's hidden life as a wartime intelligence officer, leading her…
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Eleanor
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Stories that explore the boundaries between memory and imagination, translated into thirty languages and loved by readers around the world.
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The Glass Meridian
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The Glass Meridian
When cartographer Iris Ashford discovers her late mother’s secret journal, she’s drawn into a decades-old mystery that spans three continents and challenges everything she believed about her family’s past.
A masterwork of quiet devastation. Blackwood writes with the precision of a cartographer and the soul of a poet. — The New York Times Book Review
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About the Author
Eleanor Blackwood
Eleanor Blackwood is the author of seven novels, including the internationally bestselling The Glass Meridian and the National Book Award finalist Salt and Bone.
Her work has been translated into thirty-two languages and adapted for stage and screen. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has taught creative writing at Columbia University and the University of Edinburgh.
When she's not writing, Eleanor can be found hiking the Scottish Highlands with her border collie, Oliver, or browsing the shelves of independent bookshops in Brooklyn, where she lives.
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