EAN: 9781509886098

THE HOUSE OF FORTUNE - JESSIE BURTON KARTONIERT...

The House of Fortune is the sequel to Jessie Burton's million-copy bestseller The Miniaturist.
Set in the golden city of Amsterdam in 1705  it is a story of fate and ambition  secrets and
dreams  and one young woman's determination to rule her own destiny.   Thea Brandt is turning
eighteen  and is ready to welcome adulthood with open arms. At the theatre  Walter  the love of
her life  awaits her  but at home in the house on the Herengracht  winter has set in - her
father Otto and Aunt Nella argue endlessly  and the Brandt family are selling their furniture
in order to eat. On Thea's birthday  also the day that her mother Marin died  the secrets from
the past begin to overwhelm the present.   Nella is desperate to save the family and maintain
appearances  to find Thea a husband who will guarantee her future  and when they receive an
invitation to Amsterdam's most exclusive ball  she is overjoyed - perhaps this will set their
fortunes straight. And indeed  the ball does set things spinning: new figures enter their life
promising new futures. But their fates are still unclear  and when Nella feels a strange
prickling sensation on the back of her neck  she wonders if the miniaturist has returned for
her . . .

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