Golden Hill: 'Best book of the century' Richard Osman

'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
OVER 100k COPIES SOLD 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 . . .