Golden Hill

Name: Golden Hill
ISBN: 9780571323609

Desmond Elliott · 2017 · WinnerRSL Ondaatje · 2017 · WinnerDesmond Elliott · 2016 · ShortlistWalter Scott · 2016 · Shortlist

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Faber & FaberOctober 6, 2016Historical Fiction Literary FictionISBN 9780571323609

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Desmond Elliott Prize	2017	Winner	“For its playful, meticulously researched, and irresistibly readable debut novel set in colonial New York.”
RSL Ondaatje Prize	2017	Winner	“For its playful and richly imagined recreation of eighteenth-century New York, with its mysterious protagonist and its Fieldingesque narrative energy.”
Desmond Elliott Prize	2016	Shortlist
Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction	2016	Shortlist

About This Book

Francis Spufford's debut novel is set in New York City in 1746 and follows Richard Smith, a young Englishman who arrives with a mysterious letter of credit for a thousand pounds and becomes embroiled in the city's social, romantic, and political life before his secret is revealed. Written in a playfully Fieldingesque eighteenth-century register, the novel won the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize in 2017.

About the Author

Francis SpuffordGB

Francis Spufford is a British writer born in 1964. He studied English at Cambridge and has worked as a book designer and editor before becoming a full-time writer. His nonfiction includes I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination (1996), The Child That Books Built (2002), Backroom Boys (2003), and Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense (2012). Read more →