Here she is, Jessie Burton, at the door of what she describes as her "burrow" in Forest Hill, south-east London. First glimpse of her flat: colourful, perky, tidy. "Come in," she says. She shows me what she calls her "she shed" - a literary wendy house at the end of the garden - built on the proceeds of her first novel The Miniaturist and in which she has finished her second, The Muse, which is out this week. Jessie matches these upbeat surroundings. Dark, vivid and forthcoming, she wears a skirt that is just asking to be twirled and has a musical, ever-so-slightly panicky laugh. She looks Spanish but is not - she grew up in Wimbledon. If you did not know otherwise (as I already do), you would say this was someone who would never let anything get out of hand. But life has a way of testing even the most flourishing individuals and, in Jessie's case, the challenge came wrapped up in success.
Jessie Burton: ‘Success can be as fracturing to your self as failure’ | Books | The Guardian
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