The House of Fortune by Jessie Burton
Synopsis
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER FROM THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE MINIATURIST
A woman must make her own fate . . .
1705, Amsterdam. Thea Brandt is about to turn eighteen, and at the theatre in the heart of the city she has met the love of her life. At home, the Brandt family faces ruin, and Thea's aunt Nella is convinced the only solution is to find Thea a wealthy husband. As Thea and Nella clash over the demands of duty and the heart, past secrets begin to overwhelm their present.
Will each woman be able to rescue her destiny from the whims of fortune? Returning to the resplendent world of Jessie Burton's million-copy bestseller The Miniaturist , The House of Fortune is a story of love, fate, and two women determined to make their own way.
Reviews
'I absolutely loved it' - MARIAN KEYES
'Awe-inspiring. Burton is a master storyteller' - ELIZABETH DAY
About the Author
Jessie Burton studied at the University of Oxford and then went on to the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She is the author of three novels for adults, The Miniaturist (2014), The Muse (2016) and The Confession (2019), and is both a Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller and a New York Times bestseller. The Miniaturist sold a million copies worldwide in its first year and has also been adapted for television by the BBC. Jessie is now published in forty languages. Her first children's story, The Restless Girls, was published by Bloomsbury in 2018.