Goldfinch is the third novel from Donna Tartt, her first in 11 years.Stephen King has admired the novel writing "Donna Tartt is an amazingly good writer ... it’s very good".[23] Further reviews in the US have celebrated The Goldfinch, with Michiko Kakutani praising the Dickensian elements in her rave review for The New York Times commenting "Ms. Tartt has made Fabritius’s bird the MacGuffin at the center of her glorious, Dickensian novel, a novel that pulls together all her remarkable storytelling talents into a rapturous, symphonic whole and reminds the reader of the immersive, stay-up-all-night pleasures of reading."[24] Amazon selected the novel as their October Best Books of the Month “Spotlight Pick”.