Book Review “I’ve done some things I shouldn’t have, I want to put them right....” “Hard to put things right. You don’t often get that chance. Sometimes all you can do is not get caught.” [Page 550, The Goldfinch , Donna Tartt, London: Little, Brown, 2013] Dona Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Goldfinch , is a tour de force that explores the theme of growing up in a world which is an inextricable mix of good and evil, beauty and filth. Theo Decker, the protagonist and first person narrator of the novel, is thirteen years old when he loses his mother to a bomb explosion in the Metropolitan museum in New York. Their father, an alcoholic gambler, had already abandoned them. Theo’s world turns upside down after his mother’s death. All the love and security he needed as a young adolescent is stolen by the tragedy. He is taken care of by the Barbours until his father comes to claim him learning that much money had been put aside by Mrs Decker for Theo’s educa
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