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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled The Golden Child about Sunday, `the, `Reading with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary? End with the sentence '' Mail on Sunday'.
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conversations.value: `Reading a the author novel is like being taken for a ride in a peculiar kind of car. Everything is of top quality - the engine, the coachwork and the interior all fill you with confidence. Then, after a mile or so, someone throws the steering-wheel out of the window.' Sebastian Faulks `Wise and ironic, funny and humane, the author is a wonderful, wonderful writer.' David Nicholls `The Golden Child is rich in the qualities which have marked the author's subsequent career; a pleasantly uncluttered prose style; an eye for the absurd and pretentious; the knack of being able to give comedy an undertow of menace. Most museums take themselves too seriously: here is the perfect riposte.' Sunday Telegraph `the author combines some gentle mockery of museum bureaucracy and procedures and some sharp parodies - of memos, structuralist lectures, children's essays and committee jargon - with a more serious view of the responsibilities of museums. She shows culture off-handedly inflicted by curators on a patient, suffering public, who are depicted as endlessly queuing and being systematically denied information and tea.' TLS `the author's first novel degenerates amusingly into tortuous espionage, giving hints of the wit and wisdom to come in her later award-winning books.' Mail on Sunday