Amanda Craig

A Vicious Circle

'A rip-roaring read' Elle

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Produktbeschreibung

'An excellent and entertaining read' Daily Mail

'A love story and political comment, a defence of the art of fiction, a masterpiece' Evening Standard

'Rich and splendid...viciously funny and a rip-roaring read' Elle

A Vicious Circle exposes the corruption of London's journalistic circuit, the horrors of our hospitals and slums, and the transformations caused by motherhood.

Gripping, tender and fiercely funny, it has been instantly recognised as a modern classic about the way we live now.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abacus / Little, Brown Book Group
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 846507
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 193mm x 125mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9780349139326
• ISBN-10: 0349139326
• Artikelnr.: 36072821

Autorenporträt

Amanda Craig is a British novelist, short-story writer and critic. After a brief time in advertising and PR, she became a journalist for newspapers such as the Sunday Times, Observer, Daily Telegraph and Independent, winning both the Young Journalist of the Year and the Catherine Pakenham Award. She was the children's critic for the Independent on Sunday and The Times. She still reviews children's books for the New Statesman, and literary fiction for the Observer, but is mostly a full-time novelist. Her novel Hearts and Minds was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and The Lie of the Land was chosen as book of the year by the Guardian, Observer, Telegraph, New Statesman, Evening Standard, Sunday Times and Irish Times.

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Line after line of sparkling malice...a fierce and funny book Harpers & Queen