Review: The Golden Boy, by Patricia Finn
The Golden Boy by Patricia Finn Toronto: HarperCollins Canada , 2026 Vancouver-based author Patricia Finn's debut novel is a book that speaks to both the emotions and the intellect. It's a great read, and I had the opportunity to review it for The British Columbia Review. This article was originally published on March 9, 2026 at thebcreview.ca . *** If in midlife you found yourself secure in an existence that you’d carefully built to isolate you from the storms of the past, and that unsettled past came calling to collect one innocuous, sunny day, would you face it head on, or hide yourself away? This is a central question that Vancouver-based writer Patricia Finn poses in her debut novel The Golden Boy . She asks it and suggests an answer with a large helping of Aristotelian philosophy. Set largely in 2003, Stafford Hopkins has recently lost his job as a high-level television executive in there U.S. Coming from humble beginnings as the son of a dairy farmer in ...
