Golden Hill

'Best book of the century.' Richard Osman

'Just wonderful.' Jan Morris

'A marvel.' Zadie Smith

'Every bit as superb as everyone says.' Sarah Perry



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Winner of the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize



A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 25 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

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New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One rainy evening, a charming and handsome young stranger fresh off the boat from England pitches up to a counting house on Golden Hill Street, with a suspicious yet compelling proposition -- he has an order for a thousand pounds in his pocket that he wishes to cash. But can he be trusted? This is New York in its infancy, a place where a young man with a fast tongue can invent himself afresh, fall in love, and find a world of trouble . . .



Francis Spufford is the author of five highly-praised works of non-fiction. His debut novel Golden Hill won the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He teaches writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and lives near Cambridge.