WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2019WINNER OF THE AUTHORS\' CLUB FIRST NOVEL AWARDWINNER OF THE MCKITTERICK PRIZE 2020ONE OF THE BBC\'S \'100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD\'LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE AND THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FIRST BOOK AWARDRural Trinidad: a brick house on stilts surrounded by bush; a family, quietly surviving, just trying to live a decent life IN A SOCIETY.
Like the Trinidadian landscape itself, Golden Child is both beautiful and unsettling; a resoundingly human story of aspiration, betrayal, and love..
Claire Adam\'s devastating first novel compassionately brings to life different ways of experiencing the world.
And as the hours turn to days, and Clyde begins to understand Paul\'s fate, his world shatters-leaving him faced with a decision no parent should ever have to make.
When Paul goes walking in the bush one afternoon and doesn\'t come home, Clyde is forced to go looking for him, this Child who has caused him endless trouble already, and whom he has never really understood.
They are twins but nothing alike: Paul has always been considered odd, while Peter is widely believed to be a genius, destined for greatness.
Their two sons, thirteen years old, wake early every morning to travel to the capital, Port of Spain, for school.
Clyde, the father, works long, exhausting shifts at the petroleum plant in southern Trinidad
Joy, his wife, looks after the home.
WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2019WINNER OF THE AUTHORS\' CLUB FIRST NOVEL AWARDWINNER OF THE MCKITTERICK PRIZE 2020ONE OF THE BBC\'S \'100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD\'LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE AND THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FIRST BOOK AWARDRural Trinidad: a brick house on stilts surrounded by bush; a family, quietly surviving, just trying to live a decent life IN A SOCIETY
