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.
About the Author; 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 11 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.
