•   Glamour in Glass is set in 1815, after Napoleon’s return from exile. What role did this setting play in the story?

•   How did you feel when Jane miscarried? Do you think she and Vincent will have children at some point?

•   At several points in the book, the narrator directly addresses the reader, a technique which is unusual today. How did this affect your disposition toward the narrator?

•   How would you react if someone in the real world created a glamour in front of you?

•   How did you feel about Vincent’s lies of omission to Jane? Would you be angry at your own partner if you were placed in a similar situation?

•   Jane defines herself as a glamourist, and struggles when she is forced to stop performing glamour due to her pregnancy.

What real-world situations does this parallel? Does it remind you of any events in your own life?

•   During Jane’s rescue of Vincent, she made the choice to work a glamour to hide them, even though this put their child at risk. What would you have done in her place?

•   Did you read Shades of Milk and Honey before this?

How did that affect your reactions to this book?

•   Shades of Milk and Honey has often been described as being like ‘Jane Austen with magic.’ Do you think that Glamour in Glass also fits in the Austen mold?

•   Kowal addresses both marriage and career in this novel. Do you think either of these is the major theme of the book? If not, what is?