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Author, actress. Jessica Kathryn Burton (born 17 August 1982) [1] is an English author; As of 2022, she has published four novels, The Miniaturist, The Muse, The Confession, The House of Fortune and two books for children, The Restless Girls and Medusa. All four adult novels were Sunday Times best-sellers, with The Miniaturist, The Muse and The ...
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Jun 27, 2016 · For obvious reasons, people are less likely to talk about it. Her discovery was that: “Success can be as fracturing to your sense of self as failure: it just traumatises in a less qualified way ...
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 ...
Jun 23, 2022 · The novel captures the surprise of ageing, the realisation that comes in our 30s that our potential is narrowing. Burton, older now too, is an acute observer. While Thea finds her ageing family in ...
Jun 25, 2016 · The Muse is strong on the emotional and sensual, less so on the figurative depiction of interior states (“I had to hold in the tsunami of sound I wanted to unleash”). It is a severely ...
A Flint Northern High School graduate, [5] he was a Michigan Golden Gloves heavyweight boxing champion and two-time all-state football player. At Northern, he played halfback. [5] In 1954, he scored 13 touchdowns and led his team in scoring. Many of his scoring runs were of 50 yards or more. He gained 820 yards rushing that year, and one of his ...
Jul 30, 2022 · Nella Oortman, the heroine of Jessie Burton’s bestselling 2014 debut novel The Miniaturist, nearly didn’t have a key role in its sequel . Burton attempted the follow-up to her story of a young ...
