'A glorious novel that pulls together all her remarkable storytelling talents into a rapturous, symphonic whole and reminds the reader of the immersive, stay-up-all-night pleasures of reading'
- Michiko Kakutani, * New York Times *
The Goldfinch is a triumph . . . Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction'
- Stephen King
An astonishing achievement . . . if anyone has lost their love of storytelling, The Goldfinch will most certainly return it to them'
- * Guardian *
'A modern epic and an old-fashioned pilgrimage... Dickens with guns, Dostoevsky with pills, Tolstoy with antiques. And if it doesn't gain Tartt entry to the mostly boys' club that is The Great American Novel, to drink with life-members John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth et al, then we should close down the joint and open up another for the Great Global Novel - for that is what this is'
- * The Times *