Book of the Month–September 2015
The Miniaturist
By: Jessie Burton
Her family’s financial decline has necessitated eighteen year old Nella Oortman’s marriage to wealthy merchant Johannes Brandt, a much older man and a virtual stranger. Arriving at his opulent Amsterdam home, she feels isolated. She has no friends in the unfamiliar city and feels unwelcome in her new home. Johannes is kind but distant; his sister Marin, who manages the house, is cold and mysterious. The servants regard her with disdain. Although Johannes seems to have little interest in Nella, he gives her a special wedding present–a miniature duplicate of the grand house. She hires a mysterious miniaturist to create a few things for the facsimile home. What she receives are tiny, perfect copies of real items in the house and Nella begins to suspect that the secretive artist is intimately familiar with the household and perhaps the secrets of its residents.
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About the Author
Actress and author Jessie Burton was born in London in 1982. She studied at Oxford University and the Central School for Speech and Drama. While visiting the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam she saw Petronella Oortman’s dollhouse and was inspired to write The Miniaturist. Although characters in the book are based on real people, it is not intended to be biographical. Jessie Burton is currently working on her second novel.
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