^ a b "Jessie Burton: I never thought of The Miniaturist as ambitious"."Jessie Burton on the dollhouse that inspired her novel". ^ National Theatre : Productions : The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other Archived at the Wayback Machine."Best-seller has been a life-changer for Jessie Burton". "Jessie Burton: 'Success can be as fracturing to your self as failure' ". ^ "Home is where the heart is: Anita Sethi on Jessie Burton's books".^ a b Inside back cover of 2015 Picador UK paperback edition of The Miniaturist.2023 Carnegie Medal: Shortlisted for Medusa.2014 Specsavers National Book Awards: Book of the Year for The Miniaturist.2014 Specsavers National Book Awards: New Writer of the Year for The Miniaturist.2014 Waterstones "Book of the Year" winner for The Miniaturist.The House of Fortune, a sequel to The Miniaturist, was published in 2022. Medusa, her second book for children, was published in 2021. Her third novel for adults, The Confession, was published in 2019. The story is based on the Brothers Grimm tale, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. īurton's first novel for children, The Restless Girls, was published in September 2018. It was nominated for the 2016 Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards. It was adapted as a two-part miniseries for the BBC and PBS Masterpiece in 2017.īurton's second novel, The Muse, was published in 2016 and is set in a dual time-frame, during the Spanish Civil War and 30 years later in 1960s London. It was the subject of a bidding war at the April 2013 London Book Fair. The Miniaturist took over four years to write. The novel is inspired by Petronella Oortman's dollhouse now at the Rijksmuseum, although it does not otherwise attempt to be a biographical novel. Writing career īurton's 2014 debut novel The Miniaturist is set in 17th-century Amsterdam. As well as working as an author and actress, Burton has worked as a personal assistant in the City of London. īurton's work in theatre includes The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other at the National Theatre, London in 2008.
Early life and career īurton studied at Lady Margaret School, Brasenose College, Oxford, and the Central School of Speech and Drama. Her essays have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Independent, Vogue, Elle, Red, Grazia, Lonely Planet Traveller and The Spectator. Her short stories have been published in Harpers Bazaar US and Stylist. Collectively her novels have been published in almost 40 languages. 1, and both The Miniaturist and The Muse were New York Times best-sellers, and Radio 4's Books at Bedtime. All four adult novels were Sunday Times best-sellers, with The Miniaturist, The Muse and The House of Fortune reaching no. 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. Jessica Kathryn Burton (born 17 August 1982) is an English author and actress.
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