Amanda Craig was born in 1959, and brought up in Italy and Britain. Educated at Bedales and Clare College Cambridge, she worked in advertising and journalism before becoming a full-time novelist. She is the author of five novels, Foreign Bodies (1990), A Private Place (1991) A Vicious Circle (1996), In a Dark Wood (2000) and Love In Idleness (2003). She is currently writing a new novel for Little, Brown to be published in 2006. She has two children, lives in London and contributes regularly to The Independent on Sunday and The New Statesman. She is also the children's book critic for the Times and a columnist for the Sunday Times.
Author's Website: https://www.amandacraig.com/