Review

Amanda Craig's The Golden Rule is a modern take on Victorian narrative traditions

By Anna Creer
September 19 2020 - 12:00am
  • The Golden Rule, by Amanda Craig. Little, Brown. $32.99.

British author Amanda Craig is a freelance journalist, literary critic and novelist. In an opinion piece in The Independent, Craig questioned the current obsession with historical fiction while the contemporary novel seems out of fashion. She says she has, in her novels, "set out to take the DNA of a Victorian novel - it's spirit of realism, its strong plot, it's cast of characters who are not passively shaped by circumstances but who rise to challenge or escape them".