Not final jacket image. A 17th century story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution, appearance and truth, as a country girl moves to a grand house in Amsterdam to marry an illustrious merchant trader. For readers of Sarah Waters and Donna Tartt. '...Burton is a genuinely new voice with her visceral take on sex, race and class' }Observer The sensational debut novel that became a Sunday Times No.1 bestseller and took the world by storm.