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‘Best book of the century.’ Richard Osman
‘Just wonderful.’ Jan Morris
‘A marvel.’ Zadie Smith
‘Every bit as superb as everyone says.’ Sarah Perry

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Winner of the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 25 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
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New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One rainy evening, a charming and handsome young stranger fresh off the boat from England pitches up to a counting house on Golden Hill Street, with a suspicious yet compelling proposition — he has an order for a thousand pounds in his pocket that he wishes to cash. But can he be trusted? This is New York in its infancy, a place where a young man with a fast tongue can invent himself afresh, fall in love, and find a world of trouble . . .