Jessie Burton - The Muse

Mancoff, Debra N. — Danger! Women Artists At Work (Merrell, 2012)

London

Reed, Jane — Girl About Town: How to Live in London — And Love It! (Tandem, 1965)

Spain and the Spanish Civil War

Barker, Richard — Skeletons in the Closet, Skeletons in the Ground: Repression, Victimization and Humiliation in a Small Andalusian Town — The Human Consequences of the Spanish Civil War (Sussex Academic Press, 2012)

Buckley, Henry — The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic: A Witness to the Spanish Civil War (I.B. Tauris, 2014)

Casanova, Julián — A Short History of the Spanish Civil War (I.B. Tauris, 2012)

García Lorca, Federico — Romancero Gitano (1928)

Graham, Helen — The War and Its Shadow: Spain’s Civil War in Europe’s Long Twentieth Century (Sussex Academic Press, 2012)

Koestler, Arthur — Dialogue with Death (1942)

Lee, Laurie — A Moment of War (Viking, 1991)

Lee, Laurie — As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969)

Preston, Paul — The Spanish Holocaust (HarperPress, 2011)

Woolsey, Gamel — Death’s Other Kingdom (1939)

Trinidad and the Caribbean experience in Britain

Braithwaite, Lloyd — Colonial West Indian Students in Britain (UWI Press, 2001)

Chamberlain, Mary — Narratives of Exile and Return (St Martin’s Press, 1997)

Dathorne, O.R. — Dumplings in the Soup (Cassell, 1963)

Hinds, Donald — Journey to an Illusion: The West Indian in Britain (Heinemann, 1966)

James, C.L.R. — Black Jacobins (Martin, Secker & Warburg, 1938)

Lamming, George — The Pleasures of Exile (Michael Joseph, 1960)

Miller, Kei (ed.) — New Caribbean Poetry; An Anthology (Carcanet, 2007)

Mittelholzer, Edgar — With A Carib Eye (Secker & Warburg, 1958)

Naipaul, V.S. — Miguel Street (Deutsch, 1959)

Schwarz, Bill — West Indian Intellectuals in Britain (MUP, 2003)

Selvon, Sam — The Lonely Londoners (Alan Wingate, 1956)

Stuart, Andrea — Sugar in the Blood (Portobello, 2012)

Tajfel, Henri and John Dawson — Disappointed Guests (OUP, 1965)

Radio

Radio 4 (2015): Raising the Bar: 100 Years of Black British Theatre and Screen , presented by Lenny Henry — particularly episode 2, Caribbean Voices — writers and actors from the Caribbean coming to work in London

Film

London — The Modern Babylon (dir. Julien Temple, 2012)

The Stuart Hall Project (dir. John Akomfrah, 2013) — Key domestic and international historical events featuring West Indian migration to the UK, the Suez Crisis, the Hungarian Uprising, the birth of youth counterculture, the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War, and Hall’s mixed experiences with ‘Britishness’ as a post-war immigrant

Fighting for King and Empire: Britain’s Caribbean Heroes (BBC4 documentary, producers: Marc Wadsworth and Deborah Hobson of The-Latest.com, first aired May 2015, based on the documentary, Divided By Race, United By War And Peace , also made by The-Latest.Com)

Thank you to:

Francesca Main, Megan Lynch and Jennifer Lambert,

who made this possible

Juliet Mushens,

who saw me through

Sasha Raskin and Sarah Manning,

who brought up the rear

Professor Mary Chamberlain,

who gave her time and opened my eyes a bit wider

Colin McKenzie,

who lent his erudition on matters of art

Professor Patricia Mohammed

at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad,

who generously advised on Odelle and Cynthia’s language

Gail Bradley,

who diligently scoured the script — any inaccuracies in these matters are, of course, my own.

Also to:

Alice O’Reilly, Teasel Scott and my family;

in less obvious, but equally important ways, you helped me write this novel

and

Pip Carter, for everything

JESSIE BURTONwas born in 1982 and lives in London. She studied at Oxford University and The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and worked for nine years as an actress and a PA before her first novel, The Miniaturist , was published. The Miniaturist was translated into over thirty languages and has sold over a million copies around the world.