The Secret Glass Author:Beryl Bainbridge The setting for this chilling, disquiting novel is Lancashire, England, during the darkest days of 1944. The disruptive effect of the war years had already unsettled the working-class life of Nellie, a dressmaker by trade, Margo, her sister, and Rita, the teenaged niece and ward around whom this macabre tale swirls and settles like the November ... more »mists of Liverpool.« less