Amanda Craig

Hearts And Minds

'Ambitious, compelling and utterly gripping' Maggie O'Farrell

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Produktbeschreibung

A gripping, topical novel - a detective story, a love story and a book about contemporary Britain

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abacus / Little, Brown Book Group
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 846226
• Repr.
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 292g
• ISBN-13: 9780349115870
• ISBN-10: 0349115877
• Artikelnr.: 27024432

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.

Rezensionen

A novel written with passion and moral outrage. It is a vivid portrait of a city that is at once familiar and disconcertingly strange The Times