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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.

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...

Amanda's Books

Julian talks with Amanda about growing up in Italy, the state of the publishing industry, her advice for aspiring writers, the immense struggles she had in the early years of her career while raising children, and of course her writing...

Listen to an interview Amanda did with the Dean of Southwark Cathedral for their project on Human Slavery.

Amanda sits down for a lengthy interview with Lucinda Hawksley for the Goldstar Book Club podcast. The conversation gives lots of background about Amanda herself and about her latest book, The Three Graces. You can listen to the whole podcast...

Amanda has written an article for The Telegraph about Wilkie Collins, and what Agatha Christie and Mick Herron owe to the inventor of detective fiction. Amanda believes that every writer in the genre is indebted to Collins’s instinct for plotting...

Amanda Craig joins Suzi to talk about her acclaimed new novel ‘The Three Graces’, a witty social comedy with a serious edge set in Tuscany. They discuss elderly heroines, oligarchs, Botticelli, and the impact of the migrant crisis on struggling...

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