Book cover of 'Golden Child' by Claire Adam featuring a village at night and a man or boy walking through the lone lit street, silhouetted by gold light of a streetlamp, with mountains in the distance.

One of the BBC's ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’.

A BBC Radio 4 'Book at Bedtime'.

Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize.

Winner of the McKitterick Prize.

Winner of the Authors' Club Best First Novel.

Winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Award.

Selected as a ‘Book of the Year’ by The Times and the Evening Standard.

A deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty, and love.

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Author photo of Claire Adam. A woman with shoulder-length dark hair, wearing a blue blouse, sitting at a wooden table and smiling at the camera.