Description
Set within a grand London museum preparing to unveil the spectacular relics of an ancient “Golden Child,” this witty mystery follows the staff, scholars, diplomats, and visitors drawn into the exhibition’s charged atmosphere. As rivalries sharpen and unsettling events unfold, the museum becomes a stage for deception, ambition, and danger. Penelope Fitzgerald’s debut novel blends detective fiction with sly social satire, exploring the uneasy relationship between scholarship, spectacle, nationalism, and the pursuit of power. Elegant, eccentric, and darkly comic, it offers an incisive portrait of institutional life beneath the polished surface of culture.
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Published Jan 1, 1977
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First Published
1977
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Golden Child by Penelope Fitzgerald.