Jessie Burton’s first novel is called THE MINIATURIST, and it is set in Amsterdam in 1686. It focuses on two women’s very different journeys to find a slice of freedom in a repressive, judgmental society. There’s a trial, a hidden love, a miniaturist who predicts the fate of her customers, a parakeet called Peebo and a plan to escape to the sea. It is published by Picador in the UK in July 2014, and by Harper Collins in the USA and Canada, and will be available in 29 other languages, from Korean to Hungarian, Portuguese to Polish, Catalan to Japanese. It was Waterstone’s Book of the Month on release, and is BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime beginning on Monday 21st July 2014, read by Emilia Fox.
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