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A Vicious Circle: ‘A rip-roaring read' Elle

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.

About the Author :
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

Review :
Line after line of sparkling malice...a fierce and funny book Line after line of sparkling malice...a fierce and funny book A novel of rare intelligence and ambition...Funny, insightful, beautifully plotted A novel of rare intelligence and ambition...Funny, insightful, beautifully plotted It makes you laugh, it makes you blub...an excellent and entertaining read It makes you laugh, it makes you blub...an excellent and entertaining read A plot of marvellous intricacy...it provokes peals of horrid laughter A plot of marvellous intricacy...it provokes peals of horrid laughter Combines wit, panache and extravagance with a penetrating moral sense...delightfully readable and not a little disturbing Combines wit, panache and extravagance with a penetrating moral sense...delightfully readable and not a little disturbing 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 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 An excellent novel An excellent novel 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 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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780349139326
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Abacus
  • Height: 196 mm
  • No of Pages: 400
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Weight: 326 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0349139326
  • Publisher Date: 06 Sep 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: ‘A rip-roaring read' Elle
  • Width: 126 mm


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