Harry Antlers, a once successful theatre director, falls obsessively in
love with Viola Windrush when she comes to New York for an audition. He
immediately sends her a hundred red roses and convinces himself that her
lack of response is purely temporary. He is certain that if he makes
enough extravagant and expensive gestures she will be his.
There follows a wild pursuit, which takes Harry to Viola's beautiful old
Norfolk house and to London, where she is decorating a flat for her
uncle. Finally, Harry is driven to desperation ...
The curious psychology of the obsessive is very cleverly drawn, for the
reader can see all too clearly what Harry himself cannot -that his
feelings are more those of a thwarted child than of an ardent suitor.
WANTING's support characters come vividly to life: Mr Baxter, who
caretakers Viola's Norfolk home; Gideon, Viola's brother, who leaves his
glamorous and mercenary New York mistress to return to Norfolk where a
young woman who has loved him since her youth hopefully awaits him;
Edwin Hardley, the moth scholar known as Hardly There ...
About the Author; Angela Huth has written three short story collections
and several novels. She also writes plays for radio, television and
stage, and is a well-known freelance journalist, critic and broadcaster.
She is married to a don, lives in Oxford and has two daughters.
