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STRINGS COUNTED TWICE

Strings — Book One · Glen Bradley

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First edition
ISBN
9791224350125

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ISBN
9791224350149
Publication date
2026-09-30

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Luigi Stagnetti is fifty-seven, the finest marionettist working at the very bottom of the market, heir to a stage his father painted and nine puppets older than anyone can say. But one of them — the smallest, the Bambino, the one with real hair — does not always wait to be moved. When the puppets pass into Sam’s hands, he finds a new purpose on the stage. But the past has followed them, and the strings do not end at the controls. A novel of craft, inheritance, and the things a family hands down without ever speaking of them.

“Anyone can make a puppet move. A walk is different. A walk is weight.”

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STRINGS COUNTED TWICE — back-cover artwork: light through a barn roof above an old travelling chest

Nine inherited puppets. One that does not always wait to be moved.

Luigi Stagnetti has spent his life making them move. The Bambino has a history of its own.

When the puppets pass into Sam’s hands, he finds a new purpose on the stage. But the past has followed them. And the strings do not end at the controls.

A novel of craft, inheritance, and the things a family hands down without ever speaking of them.