num_pages: 261
description: ‘The Golden Child’, Penelope Fitzgerald’s first work of fiction, is a classically plotted British mystery centred around the arrival of the Golden Child at a London museum.Far be it for the hapless Waring Smith, junior officer at a prominent London museum, to expect any kind of thanks for his work on the opening of the year’s biggest exhibition – The Golden Child. But when he is nearly strangled to death by a shadowy assailant and packed off to Moscow to negotiate with a mysterious curator, he finds himself at the centre of a sinister web of conspiracy, fraudulent artifacts and murder…Her first novel and a comic gem, ‘The Golden Child’ is written with the sharp wit and unerring eye for human foibles that mark Penelope Fitzgerald out as a truly inimitable author, and one to be cherished.
language: English
title: The Golden Child
titlecomplete: The Golden Child
characters: Sir William Simpkin, Jones Jones, Dousha Vartarian, Heinrich Untermensch, Sir John Allison, Haggie Smith, Waring Smith, Marcus Hawthorne-Mannering, Len Coker
genres: British Literature, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Art
ratings_count: 673
places: Moscow, London, England
publisher: Harper Perennial