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Rich, moving and wryly funny... Goldsmith’s portrait of her extended family, a squabbling bunch of eccentrics, brilliant and hopeless in equal measure, is a delight.... readers of this book – [will be] be richly rewarded. -- Killian Fox * Observer *Graphic Novel of the Month* * Hilarious, moving and brilliantly told, The Crystal Vase is a new high water mark graphic memoir. A fascinating investigation into generational trauma, a poetic riff on the nature of truth, a beautifully observed poem about how love gets passed down…and above all, just incredibly funny. This is a new masterpiece of comics. -- Stephen Collins, author of THE GIGANTIC BEARD THAT WAS EVIL Brilliant, witty and endlessly inventive – an intimate family portrait of astonishing historical reach. It's warm, humane, complex and with a cumulative emotional power that floored me. -- Joe Dunthorne, author of SUBMARINE The Crystal Vase is totally absorbing and as fascinating historically as it is beautifully sympathetic to knotty family dynamics. The moth-eaten rug situation sent me insane with exasperation. -- Lizzy Stewart, author of ALISON Multiple storylines and time periods… all fits together with the satisfaction of a complicated jigsaw puzzle… [A] moving memoir…[where] history is made tangible * Financial Times *

Hilarious, moving and brilliantly told, The Crystal Vase is a new high water mark graphic memoir. A fascinating investigation into generational trauma, a poetic riff on the nature of truth, a beautifully observed poem about how love gets passed down…and above all, just incredibly funny. This is a new masterpiece of comics. -- Stephen Collins, author of THE GIGANTIC BEARD THAT WAS EVIL Brilliant, witty and endlessly inventive – an intimate family portrait of astonishing historical reach. It's warm, humane, complex and with a cumulative emotional power that floored me. -- Joe Dunthorne, author of SUBMARINE The Crystal Vase is totally absorbing and as fascinating historically as it is beautifully sympathetic to knotty family dynamics. The moth-eaten rug situation sent me insane with exasperation. -- Lizzy Stewart, author of ALISON Multiple storylines and time periods… all fits together with the satisfaction of a complicated jigsaw puzzle… [A] moving memoir…[where] history is made tangible * Financial Times * Rich, moving and wryly funny... Goldsmith’s portrait of her extended family, a squabbling bunch of eccentrics, brilliant and hopeless in equal measure, is a delight.... readers of this book – [will be] be richly rewarded. -- Killian Fox * Observer *Graphic Novel of the Month* *

Hilarious, moving and brilliantly told, The Crystal Vase is a new high water mark graphic memoir. A fascinating investigation into generational trauma, a poetic riff on the nature of truth, a beautifully observed poem about how love gets passed down…and above all, just incredibly funny. This is a new masterpiece of comics. -- Stephen Collins, author of THE GIGANTIC BEARD THAT WAS EVIL Brilliant, witty and endlessly inventive – an intimate family portrait of astonishing historical reach. It's warm, humane, complex and with a cumulative emotional power that floored me. -- Joe Dunthorne, author of SUBMARINE The Crystal Vase is totally absorbing and as fascinating historically as it is beautifully sympathetic to knotty family dynamics. The moth-eaten rug situation sent me insane with exasperation. -- Lizzy Stewart, author of ALISON Multiple storylines and time periods… all fits together with the satisfaction of a complicated jigsaw puzzle… [A] moving memoir…[where] history is made tangible * Financial Times *

Hilarious, moving and brilliantly told, The Crystal Vase is a new high water mark graphic memoir. A fascinating investigation into generational trauma, a poetic riff on the nature of truth, a beautifully observed poem about how love gets passed down…and above all, just incredibly funny. This is a new masterpiece of comics. -- Stephen Collins, author of THE GIGANTIC BEARD THAT WAS EVIL Brilliant, witty and endlessly inventive – an intimate family portrait of astonishing historical reach. It's warm, humane, complex and with a cumulative emotional power that floored me. -- Joe Dunthorne, author of SUBMARINE

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Astrid Goldsmith (@mockduckstudios) is an award-winning stop-motion animator and writer who lives in Folkestone, England. Her graphic short story, 'A Funeral in Freiburg' was selected as the winner of the 2021 Observer/Jonathan Cape prize by a panel of judges including Alison Bechdel. Her upcoming debut graphic novel, The Crystal Vase, is based on this short story. She is a writer for animated TV series and is a regular Visiting Lecturer at several universities.

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