Isabel Greenberg is a London-based illustrator and writer. She studied illustration at the University of Brighton. She won the Cape/Comica/Observer graphic short story prize in 2011 with 'Love in a Very Cold Climate'. Her debut graphic novel, The Enyclopedia of Early Earth, won two Eisner Awards and was a New York Times bestseller.
Glass Town is a book to savour, a captivating mash-up of fact and fantasy, with something wonderful on every page. I loved it. An ingenious intertwining of real life and make believe, Glass Town explores the Brontes' creative impulse and its effect on their lives. It is the perfect combination of clever, crazy, and just a tiny bit creepy, and will appeal to anyone who has wondered about how imagination shapes us, as well as to card-carrying Bronte fans. Magical. Isabel Greenberg's drawings are delightful and her imaginative response to the young Brontes' fantasy lives is touching, funny and perceptive. * author of The Bronte Myth * A totally immersive read into the world of the famous Bronte juvenilia, both of the fiction and its creators. The experience of this made-up world is so real, it brings us closer to the family themselves, and you feel like you understand what it was to be a Bronte sibling - gifted, isolated, tragic, and loved. Isabel Greenberg is the only one who could bring us here, having honed a perfect style that feels timeless, dark, and a little otherworldly. Who else but the Bronte children could appreciate that?