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The House Of Fortune

By Jessie Burton (Pan Macmillan, £16.99)

More than a million of us became intrigued with the cold, dark world of 17th-century Amsterdam in Jessie Burton’s mesmerising debut,. Now, after four novels on other topics, Burton returns to that same world for the sequel,. Set 18 years after the original, things have taken rather a harsh turn for the Brandt family, who are forced to sell paintings and furniture to keep the roof over their heads.

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