This is a sparkling collection of short stories, dealing with love, loss and the tiny happenings that make up our everyday experience. Her most brilliant stories are about successful couples who own comfortable houses, enjoy interesting lives, raise attractive children - and commit adultery.
On the other hand, the author is equally concerned with the old, the lonely and the hard-up, perceiving the exiguous sources from which they derive their hope or consolation and the last straws which drive them to despair. Like an experienced naturalist, she moves invisibly through social undergrowth, observing the quirks of human fauna, solitary, coupling, flocking, moulting, displaying or dying.
Angela Huth has the gift of infiltrating the lives and minds of her characters whatever their age and social background.
Autorentext
Angela Huth is the daughter of the actor Harold Huth. She left school at age 16 in order to paint and to study art in both France and Italy. At 18 she travelled, mostly alone, across the United States before returning to England to work on a variety of newspapers and magazines. She married journalist and travel writer Quentin Crewe and soon became known most for her writing, having written three collections of short stories and eleven novels. She also writes plays for radio, television and stage, and is a well-known freelance journalist, critic and broadcaster. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Acknowledgements
Perdita, Twice
Loaf
Consequences
Thinnest Ice
The Friend
Monday Lunch in Fairyland
Dirty Old Man
Maternity
Mind of her Own
Loving Gourmets
The Fall
Azaleas for Sale
Up-State New Jersey
The Outing
Deception is so Easy
Last Love