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Zusatztext A tight, lean thriller about two women who decide to murder each other's husbands. Dotted throughout are Craig's acute observations of society, in particular the corrosive effects of poverty. Yet this skilful storyteller is never preachy. We are swept along because of her knack of creating characters we care about. Only on closing the book do we realise we've not just been entertained but made to think too Informationen zum Autor 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. She was the children's critic for the Independent on Sunday and The Times . She still reviews children's books for the New Statesman , and literary fiction for the Observer , but is mostly a full-time novelist. Her novel Hearts and Minds was longlisted for the Baileys 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 . Klappentext 'A highly enjoyable story about female resilience and finding fulfilment on your own terms , with a twist that is all the more compelling for its unexpectedness' Mika Ross-Southall, Sunday Times When Hannah is invited into the First-Class carriage of the London to Penzance train by Jinni, she walks into a spider's web. Now a poor young single mother, Hannah once escaped Cornwall to go to university. But once she married Jake and had his child, her dreams were crushed into bitter disillusion. Her husband has left her for Eve, rich and childless, and Hannah has been surviving by becoming a cleaner in London. Jinni is equally angry and bitter, 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 husband's home the next night, she finds Stan, a huge, hairy, ugly drunk who has his own problems - not least the care of a half-ruined house and garden. He claims Jinni is a very different person to the one who has persuaded Hannah to commit a terrible crime. Who is telling the truth - and who is the real victim? 'A typically sharp and hugely satisfying page-turner ' Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail Vorwort Two women meet by chance and discover that they are both victims of abusive husbands. Together, they plot their revenge... Zusammenfassung '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 cl...
