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Jessie Burton

Jessie Burton studied at Oxford University and the Central School of Speech and Drama, where she appeared in productions of The House of Bernarda Alba, Othello, Play and Macbeth. In April 2013 her first novel, The Miniaturist, was sold at an 11-publisher auction at the London Book Fair, and went on to sell in 29 other countries around the world. It was published by Picador in the UK and Holland in July 2014, and the USA in August 2014, with other translations to follow. Radio 4 commissioned it as their Book at Bedtime in July 2014. She is currently writing her second novel.

Books

Quotes

Fernanda Orozcohas quoted2 years ago
And here was another truth: I was lonely and I was angry, and rage and loneliness can end up tasting the same
Fernanda Orozcohas quoted2 years ago
She was a woman who’d done nothing wrong except exist.’
Fernanda Orozcohas quoted2 years ago
My whole life, no one had ever stopped to
listen,
to ask me a single question. They’d just looked at me, and thought they’d found their answer

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