Content: Bille, the daughter of a bottle maker, dreams of emigrating to America with her lover Adam. To afford two spots on the emigrant ship, Adam becomes a strikebreaker, while Bille's family risks everything for the strike.

Leonie is the daughter of the doctor of the glassworks and lives constrained by middle-class conventions. The talented young woman seeks closeness to the artistic bohemia, but her father has other plans. In the same place, in different worlds, Bille and Leonie fight for self-determination and their dreams of a better life. And they must decide what price they are willing to pay for it. “Days of Glass” vividly tells the story of two women around 1900, of hopes and dreams, fateful turns – and of life, which follows its own rules.

"Days of Glass" is published by Harper Collins (340 pages, 24 euros)