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 T ... Learn more