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It could be also family struggles against society’s expectations. Her character is to learn from her experience and come stronger at the end, and I believe that is the main point of the story. Young Thea represents a character that despite family’s expectations she tries to forge her own path, but she struggles with it. And as it turns out, someone else knows her secret and now demands money or Nella’s life will be ruined.Īs the story is mainly about family dynamics/secrets, there is very little to the plot. There is one candidate that aunt Nella likes a lot, but not so much Thea as she has her heart set on Walter, painter at playhouse. This book starts with Thea celebrating her eighteenth birthday and attending Amsterdam’s most exclusive ball at which potential husbands are met. This is the sequel to The Miniaturist, which I loved. But their fates are still unclear, and when Nella feels a strange prickling sensation on the back of her neck, she wonders if the miniaturist has returned for her. And indeed, the ball does set things spinning: new figures enter their life, promising new futures. Nella is desperate to save the family and maintain appearances, to find Thea a husband who will guarantee her future, and when they receive an invitation to Amsterdam’s most exclusive ball, she is overjoyed – perhaps this will set their fortunes straight. On Thea’s birthday, also the day that her mother Marin died, the secrets from the past begin to overwhelm the present. At the theatre, Walter, the love of her life, awaits her, but at home in the house on the Herengracht, winter has set in – her father Otto and Aunt Nella argue endlessly, and the Brandt family are selling their furniture in order to eat. Thea Brandt is turning eighteen, and is ready to welcome adulthood with open arms. Set in the golden city of Amsterdam in 1705, it is a story of fate and ambition, secrets and dreams, and one young woman’s determination to rule her own destiny. The House of Fortune is the sequel to Jessie Burton’s million copy bestselling The Miniaturist.