Shelf Life: Amanda Craig

Amanda Craig tells us what she would title her memoirs, which book reduces her to tears and the 19th century literary heart throb her husband most looks like.

1) What are you reading at the moment?

I always read several books at once, so it’s Richard Bradford’s Martin Amis biography (review), Julia Jones’s A Ravelled Flag (children’s review), Anthony Horowitz’s new Sherlock Holmes novel The House of Silk (fun) and Anthony Trollope’s The Belton Estate (fun.)

2) As a child, what did you read under the covers?

Almost everything, because if a book isn’t worth reading under the covers it isn’t worth reading at all. The kind of book people read in public is always a form of ostentation.

3) Has a book ever made you cry, and if so which one?

I weep copiously at many Dickens novels, especially Joe Gargery’s forgiveness of Pip in Great Expectations.