 Craig has written a cycle of seven interconnected novels dealing with contemporary British society, often in an expansive, dramatic and satirical manner that has made her a leading proponent of the social novel.Her multi-stranded approach to writing fiction has been compared to that of Anthony Trollope, Honoré de Balzac and Charles Dickens.Her 1996 novel "A Vicious Circle" was originally contracted to be published by Hamish Hamilton, but was cancelled when its proof copy received a libel threat from David Sexton, literary editor of "The Evening Standard" and former boyfriend of Craig's at Cambridge, fifteen years previously.