Well worth the wait as Tartt serves up her latest slice of literary perfection
The reader knows, throughout the novel, that Theo’s grief impacts on his entire life. Yet much of his anguish is only hinted at. It’s not until he’s back in New York, dealing with a worsening drug problem, that we learn quite what effect the bomb has had on him
It has been 11 years since the American novelist Donna Tartt produced a book. And there were 10 years between her ground-breaking debut, The Secret History and her second, The Little Friend. So expectation was high when her new doorstopper, The Goldfinch, was finally published.
