A Vicious Circle: A rip-roaring read' Elle

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This gripping, moving and hiliarious novel introduces seven characters, each of whom has a profound effect on each other s lives. Each must choose between probity and self-interest in love and work. Some compromise themselves completely; others oscillate between vice and virtue. Others are redeemed by twists of fate. For in a vicious circle, nothing is certain except change.

For five years timid Mary Quinn has supported her lover, Mark Crawley, in his rise to one of London s most savage political journalists. Now Mark has started a calculated affair with Amelia, daughter of a newspaper magnate. Mary s translation from jilted lover to a figure of power and vengeance is mirrored by Amelia s change from vain, snobbish socialite to exhausted mother.

A dazzling plot and lucid, absorbing style characterise this deliciously satirical portrait of the way we live now.

Reviews

Line after line of sparkling malice...a fierce and funny book * Harpers & Queen *
Line after line of sparkling malice...a fierce and funny book * Harpers & Queen *
A novel of rare intelligence and ambition...Funny, insightful, beautifully plotted * Time Out *
A novel of rare intelligence and ambition...Funny, insightful, beautifully plotted * Time Out *
It makes you laugh, it makes you blub...an excellent and entertaining read * Daily Mail *
It makes you laugh, it makes you blub...an excellent and entertaining read * Daily Mail *
A plot of marvellous intricacy...it provokes peals of horrid laughter * Observer *
A plot of marvellous intricacy...it provokes peals of horrid laughter * Observer *
Combines wit, panache and extravagance with a penetrating moral sense...delightfully readable and not a little disturbing * Scotsman *
Combines wit, panache and extravagance with a penetrating moral sense...delightfully readable and not a little disturbing * Scotsman *
A Vicious Circle has the zest and mordant wit of an early Evelyn Waugh and it is a testament to Craig's talent that the characters leap off the page despite their often cartoon-like grotesquerie . . . In an age in which we are seriously lacking comic novels with bite, A Vicious Circle is a wonderful tonic - a work that makes you cry with laughter but also eats unforgettably into your soul * Sunday Telegraph *
A Vicious Circle has the zest and mordant wit of an early Evelyn Waugh and it is a testament to Craig's talent that the characters leap off the page despite their often cartoon-like grotesquerie . . . In an age in which we are seriously lacking comic novels with bite, A Vicious Circle is a wonderful tonic - a work that makes you cry with laughter but also eats unforgettably into your soul * Sunday Telegraph *
An excellent novel * Fay Weldon, Sunday Times *
An excellent novel * Fay Weldon, Sunday Times *
A brilliant disquisition on the way we live now...No wonder some people mention it in the same breath as Vanity Fair. Its treatment of ambition, of social rise and fall, warrant the comparison...a hugely entertaining book * Cressida Connolly, The Oldie *
A brilliant disquisition on the way we live now...No wonder some people mention it in the same breath as Vanity Fair. Its treatment of ambition, of social rise and fall, warrant the comparison...a hugely entertaining book * Cressida Connolly, The Oldie *

Author Bio

Amanda Craig is a well-known journalist and broadcaster. She is the author of A VICIOUS CIRCLE and IN A DARK WOOD. You can visit her website a www.amandacraig.com