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Jessie Burton’s The Confession is, frankly, a bit heavy-handed

5 October 2019

9:00 AM

5 October 2019

9:00 AM

Jessie Burton is famous for her million-copy bestselling debut novel The Miniaturist, which she followed with The Muse. Now she’s written her third, The Confession. Like The Muse, it is a double narrative, moving between the early 1980s and 2017 (a departure from the historical settings of her previous books).

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