A GOOD YARN

OUR PICK OF THE SIX BEST ARTS-INSPIRED PAGE-TURNERS – FICTION AT ITS CRAFTIEST

GOOD BOOKS 1 THE GOLDFINCH Donna Tartt's famed, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a profound meditation on loss and belonging through a fictional story based around a real-life painting. Thirteen-year-old Theodore Decker survives a terrorist attack at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which kills his beloved mother and results in him coming into possession of a painting called 'The Goldfinch', one of the few surviving works by Rembrandt's most promising pupil, Carel Fabritius. He never finds the courage to return it and so begins his descent into crime. A psychological thriller set in present-day America with a vast cast of characters. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt, £9.99, www.littlebrown.co.uk 2 GIRL READING A highly original study of the idea of 'reading' art through fiction. Katie Ward's seven chapters delve into the imagined backgrounds…

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