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My new novel, The Three Graces, was published on 8th June 2023 by Abacus.
Described as My Brilliant Friend meets A Room With a View, The Three Graces is brilliant, enthralling, funny. It has just been optioned for TV serialisation by Alison Owen at Momentum Pictures after a three-way auction.
The Three Graces
Three very different friends have moved to Tuscany for a retirement in the sunshine. But life is far from quiet…
“In our retiring years, says Ruth, we are supposed to be “invisible, inaudible and negligible, as if we have nothing left to do or say. No wonder older women prefer to be portrayed as witches, or Fates, or Furies…”
About 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 read English at Clare College Cambridge. Her sixth novel, Hearts And Minds, was long-listed for the Bailey's Prize...
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Amanda talks to Ben Hunt for his Material Witness blog
Amanda talks to Ben Hunt about Twitter, being compared to Dickens, and writing novels for the minimum wage. Read it in full on Ben’s blog, Material Witness.
Amanda talks to Georgina Godwin about ‘The Three Graces’
Amanda sits down with Georgina Godwin for the Monocle “Meet the writers” series to discuss her latest book ‘The Three Graces’. Listen to the whole interview on the Monocle website.
Interview with Great British Life
Amanda speaks to Annette Shaw of Great British Life about her latest book, The Three Graces. Read the whole interview on their website.
Interview with Perspective Magazine
Amanda discusses older women and her new book The Three Graces
Amanda talks to Claire Allfree at The Telegraph
Amanda talks about why it’s so hard to make a living by writing serious fiction, and why she stands up for bullied writers, in an interview for The Telegraph with Claire Allfree. The Telegraph uses a paywall but you can...
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