The Confession

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The author made me feel like I went on a journey with Rosie so I desperately wanted her to find what she was seeking. All four adult novels were Sunday Times best-sellers, with The Miniaturist, The Muse and The House of Fortune reaching no.

And so, with little but wits and ingenuity to rely on, Frida and her sisters begin their fight to be allowed to live.The story alternates between the 2 timelines as we discover what happened to Elsie and will Rosie ever meet her mom. Her second book, The Muse, set in a dual time-frame, during the Spanish Civil War and 30 years later in 1960s London, was published in 2016. It is to be furnished by an elusive miniaturist, whose tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in unexpected ways .

Such an implausible situation could only arise in fiction, but I loved the book because of, not in spite of, this sort of thing. But the eldest, Princess Frida, will not bend to his will without a fight and she still has one possession her father can't take: the power of her imagination. Elise and Constance are lovers in the 1980s and in the present day, Rose seeks answers about her mother Elise, who left when she was a baby. The Confession perhaps lacks the dramatic thrust of The Muse and The Miniaturist; it is quite a slow build to the revelation promised by the title.Overall, The Confession examines both motherhood and purposelessness in a nuanced and fascinating way, offering a compassionate examination of female identity. Meanwhile, Rose, unsure if she even wants to be a mother, drifts through a café job and wonders “if other couples dragged themselves across the seabed like this, and why they did it… Because there was nothing else to do? Three decades later Rose Simmons is on a dogged hunt to unearth the secrets of her mother's disappearance, when she was a baby. With her bestselling debut novel The Miniaturist, Burton proved her ability to create enticing worlds, and she does it again here. As Rose becomes invested in Connie she finds it more and more difficult to reveal her true motives and identity to the novelist.