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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery, Thriller / suspense
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Little, Brown
- Paperback Apr 27, 2021 | 9780349143484 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jul 2, 2020 | 9781408711507 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jul 2, 2020 | 9781405543163 | RRP $40.99 Buy Now
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Little, Brown Audio
- Paperback Apr 27, 2021 | 9780349143484 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jul 2, 2020 | 9781408711507 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jul 2, 2020 | 9781405543163 | RRP $40.99 Buy Now
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Two women meet by chance and discover that they are both victims of abusive husbands. Together, they plot their revenge...
'A highly enjoyable story about female resilience... with a twist that is all the more compelling for its unexpectedness' Sunday Times
'She's such a skilful storyteller, who vividly dramatizes our lives with wit, wisdom and compassion' Bernardine Evaristo
'Amanda Craig anatomises the state of the nation with wit and empathy' Jonathan Coe 'An irresistible summer read' Guardian
'A typically sharp and hugely satisfying page-turner' Daily Mail
When Hannah is invited into the first-class carriage of the London to Penzance train, she walks into a spider's web. Now a poor young single mother, she once escaped Cornwall to go to university, but after marriage to Jake her dreams turned to bitter disillusion. Her husband has left her for a rich woman, and Hannah has survived by working as a cleaner. Jinni is equally angry, and in the course of their journey the two women agree to murder each other's husbands. After all, they are strangers on a train - who could possibly connect them?
But when Hannah goes to Jinni's house she meets its shambolic caretaker, who claims Jinni is very different to the person Hannah had been led to believe. Who is telling the truth - and what will become of the women's pact to commit a terrible crime?
Praise for The Golden Rule: Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
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She's such a skilful storyteller who vividly dramatises our lives with wit, wisdom and compassion
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The plot becomes so gripping - the sort of story where you want to pull the heroine out of the pages away from danger . . . What could be more fun than a book like this? - The Times
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Craig's The Golden Rule promises to be a typically sharp and hugely satisfying page-turner about two women who decide to murder each other's husbands - Daily Mail
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If you like your novels wide-ranging, ambitious, socially panoramic, and engaged in the most important issues of the day, Amanda Craig is the writer for you. For more than twenty years now she has been anatomising the state of the British nation with wit and empathy
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If you like your novels wide-ranging, ambitious, socially panoramic, and engaged in the most important issues of the day, Amanda Craig is the writer for you. For more than twenty years now she has been anatomising the state of the British nation with wit and empathy
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A typically sharp and hugely satisfying page-turner about two women who decide to murder each other's husbands - Daily Mail
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A highly enjoyable story about female resilience and finding fulfilment on your own terms, with a twist that is all the more compelling for its unexpectedness - Sunday Times
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An irresistible summer read: a rollicking plot, a heroine who is more than a match for anything the author throws at her and meaty social issues - Guardian Book of the Day
Amanda Craig
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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