![]() ![]() It may well do because, published in the bicentenary year of the birth of the youngest Brontë, Anne, the novel addresses the four siblings’ relationship and, rousingly, the imaginary world they co-created, called Glass Town. In some ways it was a dangerous thing to happen with my first, because I thought, ‘Oh, that’s just what happens with graphic novels’.” She hopes her third title-“quite a departure for me”-will attract a new audience, albeit not at the expense of her current readership. ![]() Greenberg says her initial success was “very exciting, but a bit strange. Her follow-up, One Hundred Nights of Hero, was critically lauded: the Observer hailed it as “wondrously intricate instant classic” in a review so glowing it required re-reading. Her first, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth, was a breakout success: a spin-off of her Cape/Observer/Comica Graphic Short Story Prize-winning entry, the novel won two Eisner Awards, became a New York Times bestseller and was named Best Book at the British Comic Awards. If Isabel Greenberg’s third graphic novel, Glass Town, is better than her first two-as she believes-then Jonathan Cape may have a hit on its hands. ![]()
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