Angela Huth
Author of Land Girls
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- Canonical name
- Huth, Angela
- Birthdate
- 1938-08-29
- Gender
- female
- Occupations
- novelist
journalist - Awards and honors
- Royal Society of Literature (Fellow)
- Relationships
- Crewe, Candida (daughter)
Howard-Johnston, James (2nd husband)
Huth, Harold (father)
Crewe, Quentin (1st husband) - Short biography
- 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 the journalist and travel writer Quentin Crewe in the 1960s and with him had a daughter, Candida. She presented programmes on the BBC, including How It Is and Why and Man Alive.
She is now most recognised as a successful writer. She has written three collections of short stories and eleven novels, including Land Girls, which was made into the 1998 feature film The Land Girls starring Rachel Weisz and Anna Friel. She also writes plays for radio, television and stage, and is a well-known freelance journalist, critic and broadcaster. Her play The Understanding ran at the Strand Theatre in 1982 and starred Ralph Richardson and Joan Greenwood.
She has been married to a don, James Howard-Johnston, since 1978. They live in Oxfordshire and have one daughter, Eugenie. - Nationality
- UK
- Places of residence
- Oxfordshire, England, UK
Warwickshire, England, UK - Associated Place (for map)
- England, UK
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Huth has an amazing ability to catch a personality, a situation, a description in words. Her short stories in Another Kind of Cinderella are wonderful. What she doesn't have is the ability to develop a believable extended plot. In Easy Silence the reader is repeatedly caught by delightful bits of writing, but they don't lead anywhere. At last, in the final chapters, there is some actual action, but it doesn't seem to fit the rest of the book. All the ends are tidily bundled away out of sight show more at the end of the book. show less
Huth follows three girls who are sent to a farm as part of the war effort in Great Britain. Prue is flighty and promiscuous (in a casual and thoughtless way that seems to me to be unrealistic for the time period in question), Ag is studious and serious, and Stella is searching for what it means to be in love. Through their interactions with one another, the farmer and his wife, and the farmer's son, Joe, who has been given a medical deferment because of his asthma, the girls develop from show more soft and silly to mature and a bit hardened by life.
The details of life on the farm are interesting and quite realistic. The relationships between the girls and Joe a bit less so. I did enjoy the flow of the story, though, and the unexpected outcome beat the formulaic one I was bracing for. By and large, an easy and enjoyable read. show less
The details of life on the farm are interesting and quite realistic. The relationships between the girls and Joe a bit less so. I did enjoy the flow of the story, though, and the unexpected outcome beat the formulaic one I was bracing for. By and large, an easy and enjoyable read. show less
This is the story of three women - Prue, Ag and Stella - who served in England during WWII as land girls. Land girls volunteered to serve their country by working at rural farms since so many men were serving in the military who had previously helped farmers. These three women from disparate backgrounds lived and worked at the farm owned by the Lawrences and their son, Joe. Joe's asthma prevented him from enlisting in the military to his great disappointment. Despite their differences, these show more women bonded with each other and the Lawrences and shared a work ethic that impressed the family. The work was demanding and included caring for cows, pigs and chickens, all of which were foreign to city girls.
This was an interesting glimpse into WWII in the farming communities, and the toll it took. The women's love interests were a significant part of the novel, and the epilogue answered every question. I liked all the characters, and felt a particular compassion for the elderly farm hand, Ratty Tyler, at the Lawrence farm as his wife descended from ill-tempered harridan into madness. show less
This was an interesting glimpse into WWII in the farming communities, and the toll it took. The women's love interests were a significant part of the novel, and the epilogue answered every question. I liked all the characters, and felt a particular compassion for the elderly farm hand, Ratty Tyler, at the Lawrence farm as his wife descended from ill-tempered harridan into madness. show less
This quirky, amusing, dark tale centers around the lead violinist of a quartet in England named William. This protagonist finds he must replace his prized viola player who has recently succumbed, and so decides, with the agreement of his 2 other members, to add a talented young female player to the group.
Once Bonnie joins the quartet, something very strange happens to William....although happily and comfortably married to wife Grace for many years, William becomes madly infatuated with show more Bonnie. Nothing can seem to keep him from falling for her ~ hard. Even though he adores his wife and his comfortable, familiar life with her, he decides he must have Bonnie. The only way to take Bonnie as his own, William decides, is to kill Grace.
The story proceeds with William conjuring up different scenerios and methods of murder, without much thought to the finality and the actual horrendous act ~ he merely sees it as a means to an end. So infatuated he is with Bonnie, so strong his passion for her, that even though he continues to love his wife in theory, he still feels the only way for him is to get rid of Grace.
This story was delightfully dark, funny, quirky....each character was very realistic and the plot was absorbing. Some surprises along the way kept the book going at a good pace. I didn't want to put this book down. Superbly written, this richly satisfying novel was a wonderful and different read. Although I could have predicted the ending, which was nice....I was sort of hoping for something a little more exciting. But overall, the book was very good and I would like to read more by this wonderful author. show less
Once Bonnie joins the quartet, something very strange happens to William....although happily and comfortably married to wife Grace for many years, William becomes madly infatuated with show more Bonnie. Nothing can seem to keep him from falling for her ~ hard. Even though he adores his wife and his comfortable, familiar life with her, he decides he must have Bonnie. The only way to take Bonnie as his own, William decides, is to kill Grace.
The story proceeds with William conjuring up different scenerios and methods of murder, without much thought to the finality and the actual horrendous act ~ he merely sees it as a means to an end. So infatuated he is with Bonnie, so strong his passion for her, that even though he continues to love his wife in theory, he still feels the only way for him is to get rid of Grace.
This story was delightfully dark, funny, quirky....each character was very realistic and the plot was absorbing. Some surprises along the way kept the book going at a good pace. I didn't want to put this book down. Superbly written, this richly satisfying novel was a wonderful and different read. Although I could have predicted the ending, which was nice....I was sort of hoping for something a little more exciting. But overall, the book was very good and I would like to read more by this wonderful author. show less
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