The characters in Angela Huth's marvellous collection of stories are all
winners or losers in the game of love: from the two friends competing in
a gruelling cross-country marathon for the man they both wish to marry,
to the lonely Cheltenham widow abandoning all decorum after too many
Irish Coffees; from a seaside donkey owner giving away his favourite
animal for the sake of a pair of sad grey eyes, to the husband taking up
secret dancing lessons to please his dance-mad wife. A shrewd observer
of human foibles with a fine sense of the comic and absurd, Angela Huth
has written a blissfully entertaining, poignant and funny book of
stories, which explore the nature and difficulties of love.
About the author: 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 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.
