Education
Burton studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama and the University of Oxford.
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Jessie Burton
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As of 2015, she is most well-known for her internationally published debut novel, The Miniaturist. Her 2014 debut novel The Miniaturist is set in 17th century Amsterdam. The novel is inspired by Petronella Oortman"s dollhouse now at the Rijksmuseum, although it doesn"t otherwise attempt to be a biographical novel.
The Miniaturist took over four years to write.
lieutenant was the subject of a bidding war at the April 2013 London Book Fair. As of 2014, Burton states that she is working on a second novel, to be named Belonging, set in dual time-frame, during the Spanish Civil War and 30 years later, in London.
Burton"s work in theatre includes The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other at the National Theatre, London. As well as working as an author and actress, Burton has worked as a Pennsylvania in the City of London.
She lives in South-East London.
