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A Not So Random Miscellany with Thoughts on Fiction: Jessie Burton, Paula Byrne, Neil Gaiman, and Zadie Smith

Posted on December 31, 2023 by mariavigornia

I As the old year slips into the new, I realise that most of you won’t actually read this until 2024, but for my own satisfaction, I wanted to post these thoughts before midnight PST. And if you were at … Continue reading →

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The Untold Tales: Unfinished Narratives in Jessie Burton’s The Confession

Posted on June 5, 2023 by mariavigornia

Burton, Jessie. The Confession. Picador, 2019. Burton’s 2019 novel tells two stories: how Elise Morceau falls under the spell of author Constance Holden in 1980, moves in with her, accompanies her to Hollywood, runs away to New York with someone … Continue reading →

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A Question of Provenance: Jessie Burton’s The Muse

Posted on March 19, 2019 by mariavigornia

Burton, Jessie. The Muse. HarperCollins, 2016. A few years ago, I reviewed Jessie Burton’s first novel The Miniaturist, which has since been made into a television mini-series starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Alex Hassell and Romola Garai. I don’t know why it … Continue reading →

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Maps to the Self: Jessie Burton’s The Miniaturist

Posted on October 8, 2015 by mariavigornia

Burton, Jessie. The Miniaturist. [Peebo and Pilgrim 2014] Toronto: Harper   Perennial, 2015. The Miniaturist was Waterstones book of the year for 2014, and attracted highly laudatory reviews, many of which are quoted briefly before the half title page in … Continue reading →

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