The Miniaturist
01 January 2015Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
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.
On an autumn day in 1686,...
Details
01 January 2015448 pages
9781447250937Imprint: Picador
Reviews
The kind of book that reminds you why you fell in love with readingS. J. Watson, author of Before I Go to Sleep
A fabulously gripping read that will appeal to fans of Girl With a Pearl Earring and The Goldfinch, but Burton is a genuinely new voice with her visceral take on sex, race and class . . . Burton writes great complex female charactersObserver
A terrific novel: compelling cast, gripping plot, writing to savourNathan Filer, author of The Shock of the Fall
A remarkable debut - complex, involving and deeply atmosphericDeborah Moggach, author of Tulip Fever
