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    In a Dark Wood

    Amanda Craig

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    Thirty-nine, divorced, jobless: Benedick Hunter is going nowhere, heading in the exact opposite direction he expected. So when he comes across a children's book that his mother, Laura, wrote, he decides that her life and work - haunting stories replete with sinister woods, wicked witches and brave girls who battle giants - hold the key to finding out why his own life is such a mess.

    Setting out to discover why Laura killed herself when he was six, Benedick travels to the US. As he grows more obsessed with what happened to his mother, Benedick enters into a dark wood - one that is both hilariously real and terrifyingly psychological. Dark humorous and inventive, In a Dark Wood casts light on the nature of depression, genius and of the healing power of storytelling.

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    Amanda Craig

    Amanda Craig is a British novelist, short-story writer and critic. Before becoming a full-time novelist, she was a journalist for newspapers such as the Sunday Times, Observer, Daily Telegraph and Independent, winning both the Young Journalist of the Year and the Catherine Pakenham Award. She continues to review for, among other publications, the New Statesman and the Times Literary Supplement.

    Her novels Hearts and Minds and The Golden Rule were both longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, The Lie of the Land was chosen as book of the year by the Guardian, Observer, Telegraph, New Statesman, Evening Standard, Sunday Times and Irish Times, and The Three Graces was chosen as book of the year by a number of publications, including the Spectator and the New Statesman and is being developed into a TV series by Momentum Pictures.

    She is bringing out a small non-fiction book on Modern Marriage in 2027.

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