The Miniaturist - Season 01
The world has changed enormously in the last 100 years. Downton Abbey spent six seasons running through how the world changed drastically from 1912 to 1925. The advent of computers and the internet in the 1990s has given the world today as massive a shift from 2002 to 2015. With the world having altered in such a vast manner, the world of the 1600s is one so foreign as to be alien by today's standards.
And because the first season, in all its rawness, smoothed the introduction from acquaintances to old friends between premiere and finale, these new episodes are a relief, emotionally speaking, compared to the freshman run's tone of gutter-verité which, though impressively honest, made "The Deuce" tough to watch at times.
Only later does Johannes appear and present her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their home. It is to be furnished by an elusive miniaturist, whose tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in unexpected ways . . .Available now in paperback and ebook.
The phenomenal number one bestseller and a major BBC TV series. Winner of the Specsavers National Book Award and Waterstones Book of the Year.A Richard and Judy Book Club selection.Beautiful, intoxicating and filled with heart-pounding suspense, Jessie Burton's historical novel set in Amsterdam, The Miniaturist, is a story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution, appearance and truth.On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt, but instead she is met by his sharp-tongued sister, Marin. Only later does Johannes appear and present her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their home. It is to be furnished by an elusive miniaturist, whose tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in unexpected ways . . .Nella is at first mystified by the closed world of the Brandt household, but as she uncovers its secrets she realizes the escalating dangers that await them all. Does the miniaturist hold their fate in her hands? And will she be the key to their salvation or the architect of their downfall?'My first instinct on finishing this book was to immediately read it again' - Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites 781b155fdc