The Miniaturist, by Jessie Burton
My dear and talented artist/writer/mama friend Maggie pressed this book into my hand while at her son’s birthday celebration (a moment that followed much laughter about our two blond-headed boys wearing the exact same Good Times pineapple tee shirt at the party and looking eerily similar from afar) and alluded to its interesting nature. I couldn’t wait to read it, and started devouring it any chance I got. Turns out, I LOVE it! I’m nearly finished and would highly recommend it, though be warned it is set in the late 1600’s in Amsterdam and both the plot and the weather are maybe more fall/winter-appropriate. But hell, reading about a cold dark winter and all the magic and surprises that happen within its confines during a hot and humid (albeit rainy) summer? It can work. And it does!
Go read this book! And thank you, Maggie!
I just got this book out of my library last week and I can’t put it down. It combines two of my favorite things: historical fiction and dollhouses! I highly recommend it too.
On vacation last summer in England in a small village bookstore, I attended an book-signing event with a friend where this author was talking about her book. How fun to see it here!
This was one of my beach reads on vacation. Still finishing it up, but so, so good. The first unsolicited package of items has just shown up, and she’s gone on her own to the shop – that’s where I am right now. Hard to put it down and go to bed!