![]() There is always the fear surrounding a long-awaited book that it simply won’t live up to its hype though any concern that this would be true of The Goldfinch was swiftly abated. And so it was that having finished The Shock of the Fall, and knowing I needed something seriously good to follow it that I began Tartt’s third novel. ![]() As expected with such a heralded author, the book was met with high critical acclaim and so I swiftly added it to my Christmas wishlist. Tartt later went on to release My Little Friend, after which there was an eleven year wait before The Goldfinch was published last year. I was to later discover it was on the BBC’s Big Reads and indeed I thoroughly enjoyed it when I finally got around to reading it, some months after my internship at Bloomsbury ended. Newly graduated, I was interning at Bloombsury when someone recommended I read her debut novel, The Secret History. I first heard of Donna Tartt many years ago. ![]()
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