The Goldfinch

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The Goldfinch

‘A gripping page-turner’

INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and an absent father, miraculously survives a catastrophe that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Theo is tormented by longing for his mother and  down the years he clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld.