![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Caution also appears a genetic characteristic. Not wanting to appear boastful, her mother Linda quietly dropped news of the publication deal to her book club members, early readers of her daughter's first chapters, as she was heading out of the door.īurton's parents had read to their only child when she was little, taken her to the library and encouraged her to write a story whenever she complained of being bored, but publishing was an unfamiliar world, money an unexpected luxury and frugality a family attribute. ''Oh, for God's sakes,'' Burton's father Edward, a one-time architect and a restorer of ceramic antiques, exclaimed when he heard the sum that had been paid for his daughter's first novel. Picador had picked up the rights to The Miniaturist for a six-figure sum, launching Burton on a trajectory not dissimilar to Australia's Hannah Kent, whose historical debut, Burial Rites, also plucked a first-time author from penniless obscurity to international bestseller. ![]()
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