The Three Graces: 'The book everybody should be reading this summer' Andrew O'Hagan - Hardcover

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Amanda Craig is a British novelist, short-story writer and critic. Before becoming a full-time novelist, she was 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 continues to review for, among other publications, the New Statesman and the Times Literary Supplement.

Her novels Hearts and Minds and The Golden Rule were both longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, 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, and The Three Graces was chosen as book of the year by a number of publications, including the Spectator and the New Statesman and is being developed into a TV series by Momentum Pictures.

She is bringing out a small non-fiction book on Modern Marriage in 2027.

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'She's such a skilful storyteller, who vividly dramatizes our lives with wit, wisdom and compassion' Bernardine Evaristo

'Gorgeous and generous... rich with characters and suffused with sunlight' Lissa Evans, author of Old Baggage

'I revelled in The Three Graces - such an intriguing cast, so convincingly presented, and a narrative that continually surprises. A terrific read ' Penelope Lively

' It's a novel E.M. Forster would have loved' Andrew O'Hagan

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Three very different friends have moved to Tuscany for a retirement in the sunshine. But life is far from quiet...

When Enzo shoots an illegal migrant from his bedroom one night, it triggers a series of events that embroil old and young, rich and poor, native and foreign. His elderly neighbours Ruth, Diana and Marta are three friends who have retired to Tuscany. Ruth's favourite grandson Olly is about to get married from her idyllic hillside farmhouse; however, the bride, Tania, seems curiously unengaged by anything but vlogging as a social media influencer. Marta, preparing to give the annual music recital sponsored by a Russian oligarch in hiding from Putin, is increasingly unwell, and her grandson, Xan, is full of resentment at the inequalities he encounters. Diana is nursing her husband, Lord Evenlode, and looking back over a long and troubled marriage.

Over two weeks in May, all these characters will face challenging choices as they grapple with their own past and with present dangers. For although the Tuscan spring looks as ravishing as a Renaissance painting, the realities of modern life make it harder and harder to believe that there is more that unites us than what keeps us apart.

Brilliant, enthralling, funny and generous, this is an exploration of the indomitable human heart.