Subscribe to the MPR News with Kerri Miller podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or RSS. To listen to the full conversation you can use the audio player above. Jessie Burton is an award-winning novelist of four books, including “ The Miniaturist” and its new companion novel, “ The House of Fortune.” This Friday on Big Books and Bold Ideas, host Kerri Miller sat down with Burton and talked about what it’s like to write a sequel and how looking back is often the key to moving forward. It’s a delicious return to austere but wealthy 18th century Amsterdam, told through Burton’s sensual lens. Nella herself was married off at age 18, leading to the scandal that enthralled readers in “The Miniaturist.” What will happen this time? Will Nella revisit that sin on her headstrong niece? Or will Thea’s own secrets collide with the family’s? The irony is thick, although Nella doesn’t see it. And Nella has pinned all her hopes on Thea marrying well. Her niece, Thea, is grown and turning 18. Many of the same characters inhabit her world - with one addition. Nella still lives in the house she inherited from her dead husband. Almost 20 years have passed since we first met her in “ The Miniaturist,” Jessie Burton’s wildly popular first book. When “ The House of Fortune” opens, Nella Brandt is 37.
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