The Goldfinch Ali Smith Although many attempts have been

Although many attempts have been made to re-create the splendid illustrations in Audubon's masterpiece

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the new novel from Sayaka Murata - author of bestseller Convenience Store Woman - asks: how far would you go just to be yourself

with his sulphurous colour and exquisite human anatomy

If his subjects are content to revel in their attractiveness

The Goldfinch Ali Smith Although many attempts have beenWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2011. Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that