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The House on the Herengracht by Jessie Burton begins eighteen years after the events of The House on the Golden Bend, on Thea Brandt's eighteenth birthday.
She welcomes her adulthood with open arms. At home, the atmosphere is tense - her father Otto and Aunt Nella argue endlessly, the Brandt family sells their furniture to eat, and on Thea's birthday, also the day her mother Maren died, secrets from the past invade the present. Nella is desperate to find a husband for Thea to secure her future. When they receive an invitation to the most exclusive ball in Amsterdam, she is overjoyed - perhaps fate has favored them after all? And indeed, the ball brings new prospects, but the Brandts' fate remains uncertain. And when Nella feels a strange tingling sensation in her neck, she wonders if the miniaturist is back.... The BBC based the popular series The Miniaturist on "The House on the Golden Bend," the first volume. (Paperback)