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A Vicious Circle

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17th February 2022

Price: £9.99

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780349139326

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‘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.

Reviews

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
Observer
A plot of marvellous intricacy...it provokes peals of horrid laughter
Time Out
A novel of rare intelligence and ambition...Funny, insightful, beautifully plotted
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
Fay Weldon, Sunday Times
An excellent novel
Harpers & Queen
Line after line of sparkling malice...a fierce and funny 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
Daily Mail
It makes you laugh, it makes you blub...an excellent and entertaining read
Harpers & Queen
Line after line of sparkling malice...a fierce and funny book
Time Out
A novel of rare intelligence and ambition...Funny, insightful, beautifully plotted
Observer
A plot of marvellous intricacy...it provokes peals of horrid laughter
Scotsman
Combines wit, panache and extravagance with a penetrating moral sense...delightfully readable and not a little disturbing
Daily Mail
It makes you laugh, it makes you blub...an excellent and entertaining read
Scotsman
Combines wit, panache and extravagance with a penetrating moral sense...delightfully readable and not a little disturbing
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
Fay Weldon, Sunday Times
An excellent novel