The Glass-Blowers is a 1963 novel by Daphne du Maurier. The novel tells the story of a French family of glassblowers, the Bussons, charting their journey before, during and after the French Revolution.The story is based loosely on du Maurier's own family history, she being a fifth-generation descendant of a master glassblower who had moved to England during the French Revolution. Source: Wikipedia (en)