{"product_id":"the-golden-rule","title":"The Golden Rule","description":"Product Description\n\n\nA Times, Sunday Times, Observer, Daily Mail and Financial Times Best Book of 2020 Pick'A highly enjoyable story about female resilience and finding fulfilment on your own terms' Sunday Times'An irresistible summer read' Guardian Book of the Day'A typically sharp and hugely satisfying page-turner' Daily MailShe's such a skilful storyteller' Bernardine EvaristoWhen 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?Praise for Amanda Craig'Terrific, page-turning, slyly funny' India Knight'As satisfying a novel as I have read in years' Sarah Perry'Amanda Craig is one of the most brilliant and entertaining novelists now working in Britain' Alison Lurie\n\n\nReview\n\n\nA 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 ―\nSunday Times\n\n\nAn irresistible summer read: a rollicking plot, a heroine who is more than a match for anything the author throws at her and meaty social issues ―\nGuardian Book of the Day\n\nThe plot becomes so gripping -\nthe sort of story where you want to pull the heroine out of the pages away from danger . ―\nThe Times\n\n\nA typically sharp and hugely satisfying page-turner about two women who decide to murder each other's husbands ―\nDaily Mail\n\nSuch an interesting read! . . . A story of lies - and learning that people aren't always who they appear to be -- Nina Pottell ―\nPrima\n\n\nA pacy state-of-the-nation drama that tackles issues from domestic abuse to workplace harassment, gentrification to the gig economy ―\nMail on Sunday\n\n\nClever and compelling,\nThe Golden Rule is a modern mash-up of\nRebecca and\nStrangers on a Train ―\nRed\n\n\nThe Golden Rule does what her novels do best, wrapping the reader in\na tight, lean narrative, showing the strangeness that lies at the heart of normal-seeming lives ―\nObserver\n\n\nAn acute and passionate observer of society in both town and country, and among rich and poor. She is harrowingly good at portraying the corrosive effects of poverty, particularly on vulnerable women with children to protect.\nHer prose is a delight...Best of all, Craig has the knack of creating interesting characters and of making one care about what lies in store for them. If you can do that, nothing else really matters -- Andrew Taylor ―\nSpectator\n\nPerceptive and wise, particularly on the ever-growing gap between the rich and the poor ―\nIndependent\n\n\nShe's such a skilful storyteller who vividly dramatises our lives with wit, wisdom and compassion\n\n\nStrangers on a Train meets #MeToo ―\nSunday Times\n\nCraig's ninth novel is one of her best. A clever take on Beauty and the Beast and Patricia Highsmith's\nStrangers \non a Train, it is also an astute commentary on life in Cornwall and the widening gap between the city rich and rural poor ―\nThe i\n\nAddictive . . . a wide-ranging, incisive portrait of contemporary Britain ―\nIndependent\n\nWe reckon this cracker of a novel about the \"haves\" and the \"have-nots\" will whip you into a page-turning frenzy ―\nSunday Post\n\n\nIf you like your novels wide-ranging, ambitious, socia","brand":"Abacus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39668062945365,"sku":"9780349143484N","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/ab2a50ba-36f9-4b0a-b263-e4930259feb9.jpg?v=1644269990","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/the-golden-rule","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}