The dead don't answer when we call them. The dead are not our friends.

Jerome is a young earth-artist spending a few months on an island in Lake Ontario. His idyll is shattered when he discovers a man frozen in the ice near the shore.
A year later, Sylvia, a middle-aged woman, appears at his studio in Toronto. She was the dead man's lover. Andrew's ice-encased body has haunted Jerome's dreams; Sylvia has never recovered from losing the only man she has ever loved. And now before she forgets, before the past slips irretrievably through her fingers, she wants to recount her story to the stranger who discovered him.
It is a story that stretches long and wide, beginning with Sylvia's childhood and mysterious illness, her barren marriage to a doctor obsessed by this illness, and then her chance encounter with the historical geographer, Andrew Woodman: their shared passion for the land and its history, the beginnings of desire, the stories he tells of his ancestors. In the end, his own tragic illness is revealed, an illness that eventually separates them.
Tender, elegiac and beautifully written, A Map of Glass is a deeply romantic and moving novel about the fragility of love and memory, and the redemptive power of stories.

'Urquhart is the most lyrical of writers, handling exuberance and meditation with equal grace.' Sunday Times on The Stone Carvers

'A masterpiece.' Mail on Sundy on The Stone Carvers

'Brave, intelligent and vivid'. Julia Blackburn on The Underpainter

'A great romantic tale... with language worthy of Emily Brontë and Thomas Hardy'. Timothy Findley on Away
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