The Mysteries of Glass is a 2004 novel by British author Sue Gee.

It was nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005.

[2] Set in and around Kington and Lyonshall[3] in rural Herefordshire in 1860/61, the story concerns Richard Allen, a young curate taking up his first position following the sudden death of his beloved father in whose steps he is following.

He is determined to be of service to God and the people of his new parish, but then he falls in hopelessly love for the first time with Susannah Bowen, the wife of the vicar, who is himself dying of tuberculosis...