Meanwhile the enigmatic miniaturist is up to her old tricks again, sending Thea an exquisite wax work of her lover, Walter, and a tiny beautiful pineapple.īurton draws on several conceits familiar from The Miniaturist.
Nella – a worn-down, joyless version of her former free-thinking self, thanks to loneliness, disillusionment and the creeping poverty that she and Otto are doggedly hiding behind the house’s magnificent facade – is convinced that a marriage between Thea and a wealthy lawyer is both a way out of the family’s parlous economic state and a means of washing away some of the shame of Johannes and of Thea’s unspoken illegitimacy. Johannes’ niece Thea, whose mother Marin died in childbirth, is now 18 and, unknown to Nella and Thea’s father Otto, a former slave and the manservant of Johannes, embroiled in a passionate affair with a scenery painter at the local theatre.
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