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In the sequel to former Waterstones Book of the Year The Miniaturist, Burton crafts another exquisite story of family and fate set in early 18th-century Amsterdam.
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The House of Fortune is the sequel to Jessie Burton's million copy bestselling The Miniaturist. Set in the golden city of Amsterdam in 1705, it is a story of fate and ambition, secrets and dreams, and one young woman's determination to rule her own destiny.
Thea Brandt is turning eighteen, and is ready to welcome adulthood with open arms. At the theatre, Walter, the love of her life, awaits her, but at home in the house on the Herengracht, winter has set in - her father Otto and Aunt Nella argue endlessly, and the Brandt family are selling their furniture in order to eat. On Thea's birthday, also the day that her mother Marin died, the secrets from the past begin to overwhelm the present.
Nella is desperate to save the family and maintain appearances, 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: new figures enter their life, promising new futures. 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 for her . . .
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 2928377071592
Number of pages: 400
Dimensions: 216 x 135 mm
It has been 18 years since we left our characters in total confusion and surprise with the birth of baby girl Thea in ‘The Miniaturist’. Now she is a young lady celebrating her 18th birthday.
Unfortunately, the...
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Dearest reader, you thought you knew the tale of The Miniaturist. You presumed the story was over. How foolish of you, for there is another voice that must be heard.
Set in the golden and austere city of Amsterdam,...
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The House of Fortune provides the welcome opportunity to revisit the characters remaining from The Miniaturist. We are reintroduced to Nella, Otto and Cornelia, and introduced to baby Thea, now eighteen. She feels... More
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