A Vicious Circle

‘A rip-roaring read' Elle

Amanda Craig author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group

Published:6th Sep '12

£9.99

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A Vicious Circle cover

'An excellent and entertaining read' Daily Mail

'A love story and political comment, a defence of the art of fiction, a masterpiece' Evening Standard


'Rich and splendid...viciously funny and a rip-roaring read' Elle

A Vicious Circle
exposes the corruption of London's journalistic circuit, the horrors of our hospitals and slums, and the transformations caused by motherhood.

Gripping, tender and fiercely funny, it has been instantly recognised as a modern classic about the way we live now.

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 *

ISBN: 9780349139326

Dimensions: 196mm x 126mm x 28mm

Weight: 280g

400 pages