Amanda Craig

Amanda Craig is a British novelist, short-story writer and critic. Born in South Africa in 1959, she grew up in Italy and became a journalist for newspapers such as The Sunday Times, the Observer, the Daily Telegraph and the Independent, and regularly reviews for the Guardian, the Spectator and the New Statesman. Often compared to Balzac, Trollope and E.M. Forster, she is the author of nine books, including the novels The Golden Rule, which was longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize, as was Hearts And Minds (2009), and The Lie of the Land, which was a Radio 4 Book At Bedtime, a YOU Magazine Book Club choice and was picked by six national newspapers as a Book of the Year in 2018. Her latest novel, The Three Graces, is currently being developed for TV by Momentum Pictures.

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