Golden Rule

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Hearts and Minds
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London
longlisted
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Patricia Highsmith
Penzance
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prize-winning
psychological
relationships
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Strangers on a Train
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The Lie of the Land
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women
Women's Prize for Fiction

Product details

  • ISBN 9780349143484
  • Weight: 320g
  • Dimensions: 126 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Apr 2021
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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?

Amanda Craig is a British novelist, short-story writer and critic. After a brief time in advertising and PR, she became 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. Her novels Hearts and Minds and The Golden Rule were both longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and 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.

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