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The Golden Rule: Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
Amanda Craig
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'A highly enjoyable story about female resilience... with a twist that is all the more compelling for its unexpectedness' Sunday Times
'She's such a skilful storyteller, who vividly dramatizes our lives with wit, wisdom and compassion' Bernardine Evaristo
'Amanda Craig anatomises the state of the nation with wit and empathy' Jonathan Coe'An irresistible summer read' Guardian
'A typically sharp and hugely satisfying page-turner' Daily Mail
When Hannah is invited into the first-class carriage of the London to Penzance train, she walks into a spider's web. Now a poor young single mother, she once escaped Cornwall to go to university, but after marriage to Jake her dreams turned to bitter disillusion. Her husband has left her for a rich woman, and Hannah has survived by working as a cleaner. Jinni is equally angry, and in the course of their journey the two women agree to murder each other's husbands. After all, they are strangers on a train - who could possibly connect them?
But when Hannah goes to Jinni's house she meets its shambolic caretaker, who claims Jinni is very different to the person Hannah had been led to believe. Who is telling the truth - and what will become of the women's pact to commit a terrible crime?
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Praise for The Golden Rule: Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
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She's such a skilful storyteller who vividly dramatises our lives with wit, wisdom and compassionThe plot becomes so gripping - the sort of story where you want to pull the heroine out of the pages away from danger . . . What could be more fun than a book like this? - The TimesCraig's The Golden Rule promises to be a typically sharp and hugely satisfying page-turner about two women who decide to murder each other's husbands - Daily MailOffering wit, compassion and philosophical stimulation . . . Craig is a state-of-the-nation writer, and there is plenty to chew on in her 10th book: here is a Britain divided along many lines, class, region and Brexit among them - ObserverIf you like your novels wide-ranging, ambitious, socially panoramic, and engaged in the most important issues of the day, Amanda Craig is the writer for you. For more than twenty years now she has been anatomising the state of the British nation with wit and empathy
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