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by Amanda Craig (Author)
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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate; New Ed edition (3 Jul 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1857026853
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857026856
  • Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.9 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 133,646 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Evening Standard, December 1996
A masterpiece...The greatest novelist under the age of fifty has now stepped onto the stage.

The Daily Mail, December 1996
It's like Dickens without the long-winded bits. It makes you laugh, it makes you blub..an excellent and entertaining read.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Vicious Circle by Amanda Craig, 3 Mar 2003
By Matthew Hargreaves (Edinburgh UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Vicious Circle (Hardcover)
This is a jaundiced but funny and poignant look at a small circle of Oxbridge graduates in London who are cutting each others' throats on their way to the top of the media at the end of the last century. It is a hugely ambitious book, ranging from the world of mega rich media magnate Max de Monde (Robert Maxwell in disguise)to the run down housing estate lived in by single mum Grace. The heroine Mary thinks that if you can't beat em you just have to join em, and becomes the most savage book reviewer of them all, until she sees how destructive her pen can be. She is a likeable and believable character, and the whole story whips along at a cracking pace, by turns funny, excruciating, sad, wise, and, when it comes to bringing up baby, toe-curling. Altogether a Good Read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A modern 'Way We Live Now', 2 Jan 2002
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If you're put off by all the five stars and raves - don't be! I knew nothing about this book apart from other people's recommendations, but now I can't think why this hasn't been turned into a film or TV serial. It's just as good as Trollope and far more accessible - the kind of novel that should win the Booker and never does because it's just too readable and doesn't play enough post-modern tricks. A really great, intelligent, meaty read, full of solid, well-drawn characters, humour, comedy, tragedy and romance, it charts the rise and fall of two women who are both in love with the same awful man, plus a host of other characters. Set in the 1990s but (with another recession looming) still completely relevant and modern in its depiction of greed and selfishness, love and revenge, this is the best novel I've read this year.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful, wicked black comedy, 11 Jun 2002
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As an author and long-time observer of the often hideous literary scene, I found this book both laugh-out-funny and squirmingly real! As an absorbed reader, I couldn't have higher praise for the book than to say I looked forever to reading an instalment each night in the same way as I looked forward to reading books as a kid. The novel has an integrity of vision, an elegance of language and an understanding of character that were both delicious and sustaining. I also thoroughly recommend In A Dark Wood, another title by Amanda Craig, which I've recently read.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Engaging, but incestuous
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, emotional and funny.
A Vicious Circle gets deeply under the skin of London at the turn of the millennium. It is filled with sophisticated characterisation and deep emotion. A must read.
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