The Golden Child, (Paperback)

from candyschultz

I just finished The Golden Child by Penelope Fitzgerald. What a fun book and quite extraordinarily different from the last one of hers which I read.. The Golden Child is part comedy, part murder mystery and a sly parody of the hierarchy of an Art/Historical Museum. Ms. Fitzgerald also gets a few ...

from CurrerBell

The "mystery" isn't much — the murders don't occur until halfway through the book and it's fairly obvious who the perp is, though the method of murder is a bit odd — but that's not the point. What's really amusing about this novel novella, Fitzgerald's first and published when she was...

from michaelm42071

Penelope Fitzgerald is a British novelist who did not begin publishing until she was in her sixties, but who eventually won England's top literary award, the Booker Prize, as well as the National Book Critics Award in this country. Her first book, The Golden Child, is a mystery based on the Tutan...

from JanAyres

Brilliant! One of the best books I have read in a very long time. Having worked in the august organisation which is featured many things ring true - although of course none of the bad things described would ever happen in real life. The characters are believable and in most cases likeable, the na...

from RandyMetcalfe

Penelope Fitzgerald was already 60 years old when her first novel, The Golden Child, was published in 1977. I think 'zany' is the only term that fully applies. It is a novel that spills over with enthusiasms and peculiarities. It has a plot that moves from London to Moscow and back to London, wit...