‘A book of beauty and insight . . . awe-inspiring. Burton is a master storyteller’ Elizabeth Day Thea Brandt is about to turn eighteen, and at the theatre in Amsterdam’s golden city centre she thinks she has met the love of her life. At home, the Brandt family faces ruin, and Thea’s aunt Nella is convinced the only solution is to find Thea a wealthy husband among the city’s elite. As Thea and Nella clash over the demands of duty and the heart, past secrets begin to overwhelm their present. Will each woman be able to rescue her destiny from the whims of fortune? The House of Fortune is a glorious, sweeping story of fate and ambition, secrets and dreams, and one young woman’s determination to rule her own destiny.