Amanda Craig





Amanda Craig

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Amanda Craig (born 1959) is a British novelist. Craig studied at Bedales School and Cambridge and works as a journalist. She is married with two children and lives in London.

Craig has so far published a cycle of six novels which deal with contemporary British society, often in a concise acerbic satirical manner. Her approach to writing fiction has been compared to that of Anthony Trollope and Charles Dickens.[1] Her novel A Vicious Circle was originally contracted to be published by Hamish Hamilton, but was cancelled when its proof copy received a libel threat from David Sexton, a literary critic and former boyfriend of Craig's at Cambridge, fifteen years previously.[2] The novel was promptly bought by Fourth Estate and published three mont...more


Average rating: 3.52 · 424 ratings · 89 reviews · 9 distinct works
Hearts and minds
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions
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In a Dark Wood: A Novel
3.39 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions
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Love in Idleness
2.9 of 5 stars 2.90 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions
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Vicious Circle
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions
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Foreign Bodies
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions
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A Private Place
3.31 of 5 stars 3.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions
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In a Dark Wood. Amanda Craig
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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La prima goccia di pioggia
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The Fountain Overflows
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4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 320 ratings — published 1956 — 13 editions
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