House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family Book

The Sunday Times bestseller\u2018An utterly engrossing book\u2019 Nigella Lawson\n\u2018Remarkable and gripping\u2019 Edmund de Waal\n'A near-perfect study of Jewish identity in the 20th century \u2026 I don\u2019t hesitate to call it a masterpiece\u2019 Telegraph\nAfter her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled to her apartment to try and make sense of a woman she\u2019d never really known. Sala Glass was a European expat in America \u2013 defiantly clinging to her French influences, famously reserved, fashionable to the end \u2013 yet to Hadley much of her life remained a mystery. Sala\u2019s experience of surviving one of the most tumultuous periods in modern history was never spoken about.\nWhen Hadley found a shoebox filled with her grandmother\u2019s treasured belongings, it started a decade-long quest to find out their haunting significance and to dig deep into the extraordinary lives of Sala and her three brothers. The search takes Hadley from Picasso\u2019s archives in .