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Green Smoke

Rosemary Manning
Stars of Fortune

Cynthia Harnett
The Flight of the Falcon

Daphne Du Maurier
Great Escapes

Rose Tremain, Fay Weldon, Deborah Moggach, Lesley Pearse, Kate Mosse, Jane Elizabeth Varley, Isabel Wolff, Amanda Craig, Virginia Ironside, Kathy Lette
A Private Place

Amanda Craig
A Vicious Circle

Amanda Craig
In a Dark Wood

Amanda Craig

Fairy tales are stuffed to the brim with dark woods--dark woods in which dwarves and hermits lurk, trees bleed when struck with an axe and princes and princesses are tested to within a hair's breadth of their lives. When Benedick Hunter finds a book of fairy tales written by his mother he knows there are dark woods within but is unaware of just how dangerous fairy tales can be. In A Dark Wood is his journey to discover his mother's secrets, the truths behind her stories and why she committed suicide when he was still a child. This is also a journey to find out more about himself, his "amorphous moods" and the "stink of failure" that plagues him following a divorce and a long spell of unemployment.
In A Dark Wood unravels through a matrix of fairy tales and half-forgotten memories leading from London in the 1960s to present-day New York and the white verandaed houses of North Carolina (hemmed in, of course, by dark woods). It's Amanda Craig's fourth novel, following the acclaimed A Vicious Circle, which is currently being developed for BBC television. Craig confirms with this novel that she is a voice to listen to, a bold writer who is not frightened to deliver a harrowing read. That said, In A Dark Wood has a lighter side and is shot through with a magical feel--as all good fairy tales should be.--Jane Honey
Love in Idleness

Amanda Craig
Foreign Bodies

Amanda Craig
Hearts and Minds

Amanda Craig
In a Dark Wood

Amanda Craig
In a Dark Wood

Amanda Craig

Fairy tales are stuffed to the brim with dark woods--dark woods in which dwarves and hermits lurk, trees bleed when struck with an axe and princes and princesses are tested to within a hair's breadth of their lives. When Benedick Hunter finds a book of fairy tales written by his mother he knows there are dark woods within but is unaware of just how dangerous fairy tales can be. In A Dark Wood is his journey to discover his mother's secrets, the truths behind her stories and why she committed suicide when he was still a child. This is also a journey to find out more about himself, his "amorphous moods" and the "stink of failure" that plagues him following a divorce and a long spell of unemployment.
In A Dark Wood unravels through a matrix of fairy tales and half-forgotten memories leading from London in the 1960s to present-day New York and the white verandaed houses of North Carolina (hemmed in, of course, by dark woods). It's Amanda Craig's fourth novel, following the acclaimed A Vicious Circle, which is currently being developed for BBC television. Craig confirms with this novel that she is a voice to listen to, a bold writer who is not frightened to deliver a harrowing read. That said, In A Dark Wood has a lighter side and is shot through with a magical feel--as all good fairy tales should be.--Jane Honey
Love in Idleness

Amanda Craig
Foreign Bodies

Amanda Craig
A Private Place

Amanda Craig
Love in Idleness

Amanda Craig
In a Dark Wood: Complete & Unabridged

Amanda Craig
Love in Idleness

Amanda Craig
In a Dark Wood

Amanda Craig
A Vicious Circle

Amanda Craig