I am an awkward person and whenever I see an awkward situation coming up on the show, I would switch channels or pause the show. I got interested in reading this book when BBC did a two-episode adaptation. As a web of danger gradually ensnares the characters, Nella wonders if the fates of everyone lay in the miniaturist’s hands. The miniaturist, whom she never meets, begins sending her lifelike dolls and furnishings that are eerily accurate, and even seem to predict the future. Brandt gives her a wedding present of a dollhouse designed to look like their nine room home in miniature, and she engages the services of a local miniaturist to add realistic furnishings to it. She steps into a house of secrets held by Brandt’s ascetic sister Marin, the servants Cornelia and Otto, and Brandt himself, who treats her more like a friend than a wife. Petronella (Nella) Oortman, a poor 18-year-old girl from the Dutch countryside, arrives at the Golden Bend home in Amsterdam of the wealthy merchant Johannes Brandt, who married her a month earlier.
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