The Miniaturist: A Richard and Judy Book Club pick and beautifully atmospheric historical novel
Jul 2014 · Pan Macmillan
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The phenomenal number one bestseller and a major BBC TV series.
A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.
Winner of the Specsavers National Book Award and Waterstones Book of the Year.
Beautiful, intoxicating and filled with heart-pounding suspense, Jessie Burton's historical novel set in Amsterdam, The Miniaturist, is a story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution.
'Completely immerses the reader in sumptuous but strict seventeenth-century Amsterdam' – Naomi Wood, author of Mrs. Hemingway
On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt, but instead she is met by his sharp-tongued sister, Marin. Only later does Johannes appear and present her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their home. It is to be furnished by an elusive miniaturist, whose tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in unexpected ways . . .
Nella is at first mystified by the closed world of the Brandt household, but as she uncovers its secrets she realizes the escalating dangers that await them all. Does the miniaturist hold their fate in her hands? And will she be the key to their salvation or the architect of their downfall?
'My first instinct on finishing this book was to immediately read it again' – Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites
A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.
Winner of the Specsavers National Book Award and Waterstones Book of the Year.
Beautiful, intoxicating and filled with heart-pounding suspense, Jessie Burton's historical novel set in Amsterdam, The Miniaturist, is a story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution.
'Completely immerses the reader in sumptuous but strict seventeenth-century Amsterdam' – Naomi Wood, author of Mrs. Hemingway
On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt, but instead she is met by his sharp-tongued sister, Marin. Only later does Johannes appear and present her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their home. It is to be furnished by an elusive miniaturist, whose tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in unexpected ways . . .
Nella is at first mystified by the closed world of the Brandt household, but as she uncovers its secrets she realizes the escalating dangers that await them all. Does the miniaturist hold their fate in her hands? And will she be the key to their salvation or the architect of their downfall?
'My first instinct on finishing this book was to immediately read it again' – Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites
The phenomenal number one bestseller and a major BBC TV series.
A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.
Winner of the Specsavers National Book Award and Waterstones Book of the Year.
Beautiful, intoxicating and filled with heart-pounding suspense, Jessie Burton's historical novel set in Amsterdam, T...
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Jennie Wilby
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February 26, 2015
Liked this a lot, it felt similar to "girl with a pearl earing" one thing tho, I would have liked a bit more strangeness with the miniature house the story line kept going off course and there didn't seem to be a set a gender. Even tho it was well written
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Reece Morris
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October 18, 2022
I don't know what to say about this other than I found the book an absolute bore such a hard read, but because of the great things I have been told/read about this book I continued and how I wish I didn't, boring from beginning to end. 😴😴
Shan Lancaster
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February 2, 2015
All the ingredients are there but the writing is lumpy. Too many passages spelling things out, some jarring repetitions, and a couple of bits of plot that simply don't work. Lovely, haunting story, beautifully told in parts. It's a very good first book.
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About the author
Jessie Burton is the author of the Sunday Times number one and New York Times bestsellers The Miniaturist, The House of Fortune, and The Muse, and the children’s book The Restless Girls. In its year of publication The Miniaturist sold over a million copies, and in 2017 it was adapted into a major TV series for BBC One. Her novels have been translated into thirty-eight languages, and she is a regular essay writer for newspapers and magazines. She lives in London.
Jessie Burton is the author of the Sunday Times number one and New York Times bestsellers The Miniaturist, The House of Fortune, and The Muse, and the children’s book The Restless Girls. In its year of publication The Miniaturist sold over a million copies, and in 2017 it was adapted into a major...
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