From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist comes a captivating and brilliantly realized story of two young women—a Caribbean immigrant in 1960s London, and a bohemian woman in 1930s Spain—and the powerful mystery that ties them together.

England, 1967. Odelle Bastien is a Caribbean émigré trying to make her way in London. When she starts working at the prestigious Skelton Institute of Art, she discovers a painting rumored to be the work of Isaac Robles, a young artist of immense talent and vision whose mysterious death has confounded the art world for decades. The excitement over the painting is matched by the intrigue around the conflicting stories of its discovery. Drawn into a complex web of secrets and deceptions, Odelle does not know what to believe or who she can trust, including her mesmerizing colleague, Marjorie Quick.

Spain, 1936. Olive Schloss, the daughter of a Viennese Jewish art dealer and an English heiress, follows her parents to Arazuelo, a poor, restless village on the southern coast. She grows close to Teresa, a young housekeeper, and Teresa’s half-brother, Isaac Robles, an idealistic and ambitious painter newly returned from the Barcelona salons. A dilettante buoyed by the revolutionary fervor that will soon erupt into civil war, Isaac dreams of being a painter as famous as his countryman Picasso.

Raised in poverty, these illegitimate children of the local landowner revel in exploiting the wealthy Anglo-Austrians. Insinuating themselves into the Schloss family’s lives, Teresa and Isaac help Olive conceal her artistic talents with devastating consequences that will echo into the decades to come.

Rendered in exquisite detail, The Muse is a passionate and enthralling tale of desire, ambition, and the ways in which the tides of history inevitably shape and define our lives.

傑西•波頓（Jessie Burton）

1982年生於英國。曾就讀於牛津大學及倫敦大學皇傢中央演講和戲劇學院，以演員身份活躍於英國舞颱、電視節目9年。

2014年，她以處女作《玩偶屋》一鳴驚人，作品被翻譯為38種語言，暢銷世界超100萬冊，國際媒體好評如潮。

她的第二部作品《打字機上的繆斯》僅英國官方銷量已突破50萬冊。波頓受到愛情、戰爭、藝術等題材的啓發，運用書籍、電影與廣播資料，完成瞭這部震撼人心的小說。在小說中，波頓對夢想、人生和自我進行瞭深入細緻的探索。

她也通過小說錶達瞭自己對於創作的想法：“如果你真的想完成自己的作品，你必須投入更多的信念。你必須鬥爭，跟自己鬥爭。這並不容易。”