The Three Graces: The Book Everybody Should Be Reading This Summer’ Andrew O’Hagan

’A brilliant piece of storytelling that revels in the world of expat old ladies in Tuscany, and should be the book that everybody’s reading this summer’ Andrew O’Hagan

’In the Tuscan hilltop village of Santorno, the setting for Amanda Craig’s entertaining and bracing new novel, the Three Graces of her title are preparing for a spring wedding. Adorning this idyll Craig’s Graces - Ruth, Marta and Diana - are a trio of elderly expatriates with a total of ＂four breasts, five eyes and three hip replacements＂ between them... witty, sharp-eyed and ridiculously enjoyable’ Christobel Kent, Guardian

When Enzo, a local villager, shoots an illegal immigrant from his bedroom window one night it triggers a series of events that embroil old and young, rich and poor, native and foreign.

’Enjoyable and provocative... romantic and realistic’ Emily Rhodes, Spectator

’I absolutely LOVED The Three Graces. It’s about Tuscany and Umbria and Italy and immigration and ageing and generational divides and art and beauty and music and suffering and love and joy and life. It’s bursting with compassion and wisdom’ Christina Patterson

Amanda Craig is a British novelist, short-story writer and critic. After a brief time in advertising and PR, she became 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 was the children’s critic for the Independent on Sunday and The Times. She still reviews children’s books for the New Statesman, and literary fiction for the Observer, but is mostly a full-time novelist. Her novel Hearts and Minds was longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and 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.