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Unimpressed by The Miniaturist
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Amsterdam, Book Review, The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton, The Rijksmuseum
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January 4, 2016 |
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Unimpressed by The Miniaturist
Book Review The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
I picked this book up several times in various bookshops before I finally decided to buy it, manly because my niece said she was in the middle of reading it and said she “couldn’t put it down. Like her, I was, to begin with, similarly beguiled, immediately drawn by the setting, the attention to detail, the evocation of the atmosphere of seventeenth century Amsterdam. The descriptions were so accurate it was like stepping into one of those paintings of the interiors of Dutch houses and then out into...Read More
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Bethany Askew is the author of eight novels:
The Time Before, The World Within, Out of Step, Counting the Days, Poppy’s Seed, Three Extraordinary Years,The Two Saras and I know you, Don’t I?
She has also written a short story, The Night of the Storm, and she writes poetry.
Two more women’s fiction books have been accepted for publication in 2020 and 2021 respectively and she is currently working on a new novel.
In her spare time she enjoys reading, music, theatre, walking, Pilates, dancing and voluntary work.
Bethany is married and lives in Somerset.
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