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THE HOUSE OF FORTUNE
Sequel to million-copy number 1 Sunday Times bestseller and NYT bestseller The Miniaturist
Set eighteen years after the events of The Miniaturist, The House of Fortune begins on Thea Brandt's eighteenth birthday, and she is ready to welcome adulthood with open arms. At home things are difficult - her father Otto and Aunt Nella argue endlessly, the Brandt family are selling their furniture in order to eat and on Thea's birthday, also the day that her mother Marin died, the secrets from the past seem to threaten to overwhelm the present.
Nella is desperate to find Thea a husband who will guarantee her future, and when they receive an invitation to Amsterdam's most exclusive ball, she is overjoyed - perhaps this will set their fortunes straight. And indeed, the ball does set things spinning, but their fates are still unclear, and when Nella feels a strange prickling sensation on the back of her neck, she wonders if the miniaturist has returned...
Jessie Burton studied at Oxford University and The Central School of Speech and Drama. Rights to The Miniaturist, her first novel, sold in forty territories around the world, the bulk of which were sold at auction. Picador published it in the UK in summer 2014, and it entered the Sunday Times bestseller list in its first week of sales. It was named Waterstones Book of the Year 2014, and to date has sold over two million copies worldwide. It was BBC One's flagship Christmas series of 2017, starring Romola Garai and Anya Taylor-Joy, and it aired in the United States on PBS Masterpiece in the fall of 2018. Her second novel, The Muse, was published in summer 2016 and spent 10 weeks straight on the Sunday Times bestseller list, peaking at number one. As a non-fiction writer, she has written essays and reviews for The New York Times, Harpers Bazaar UK, The Wall Street Journal, The Independent, Vogue, Elle, Red, Grazia, Lonely Planet Traveller and The Spectator. Harpers Bazaar US and Stylist have also published her short stories. She regularly appears on Radio 4 as a contributor to cultural programmes. Found In Translation, her personal essay on Brexit, appeared in Goodbye Europe, published in 2017. Jessie's first illustrated book for children, The Restless Girls, was published by Bloomsbury in September 2018, with Medusa to follow in 2021. Her third novel, The Confession, was published by Picador in September 2019 and immediately became a Sunday Times Bestseller
Nella is desperate to find Thea a husband who will guarantee her future, and when they receive an invitation to Amsterdam's most exclusive ball, she is overjoyed - perhaps this will set their fortunes straight. And indeed, the ball does set things spinning, but their fates are still unclear, and when Nella feels a strange prickling sensation on the back of her neck, she wonders if the miniaturist has returned...
Jessie Burton studied at Oxford University and The Central School of Speech and Drama. Rights to The Miniaturist, her first novel, sold in forty territories around the world, the bulk of which were sold at auction. Picador published it in the UK in summer 2014, and it entered the Sunday Times bestseller list in its first week of sales. It was named Waterstones Book of the Year 2014, and to date has sold over two million copies worldwide. It was BBC One's flagship Christmas series of 2017, starring Romola Garai and Anya Taylor-Joy, and it aired in the United States on PBS Masterpiece in the fall of 2018. Her second novel, The Muse, was published in summer 2016 and spent 10 weeks straight on the Sunday Times bestseller list, peaking at number one. As a non-fiction writer, she has written essays and reviews for The New York Times, Harpers Bazaar UK, The Wall Street Journal, The Independent, Vogue, Elle, Red, Grazia, Lonely Planet Traveller and The Spectator. Harpers Bazaar US and Stylist have also published her short stories. She regularly appears on Radio 4 as a contributor to cultural programmes. Found In Translation, her personal essay on Brexit, appeared in Goodbye Europe, published in 2017. Jessie's first illustrated book for children, The Restless Girls, was published by Bloomsbury in September 2018, with Medusa to follow in 2021. Her third novel, The Confession, was published by Picador in September 2019 and immediately became a Sunday Times Bestseller
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