tracycumming 's review for:

The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
4.0

An easy and mostly entertaining summer read. The world of business and life in Amsterdam provides a blurred backdrop for the foreground of the story - that of the Brandt household and the people (particularly the women) who inhabit it.
The miniaturist provides another level to the story, exploring and reflecting ideas such as growth, freedom, truth, lies, secrets, religion, business and life and death and many more.
Although it felt like a slow start the story gained momentum eventually and kept my interest to the end.