Product Description

Quiet Virginia Fly, still a virgin at 31, harbours erotic thoughts of an intensity unimagined by her parents, her suitor or even her virile American penfriend. Suddenly, Virginia is presented with a variety of ways to lose her virginity - but can any of them fulfil her considerable expectations?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1100586 in Books
• Published on: 1995-11-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 189 pages

Review
Virginia Fly is a very different kind of Maiden (British for one thing) whom the world has passed by - a teacher of thirty, her mouth drawn almost as tight as her hair which is pulled back, living with her parents and leading an emotionally famished existence. It consists of writing to Charlie in America for twelve years, or a monthly concert with a professor, Hans. Until actuality overtakes her in the form of a wincingly distasteful seduction by Charlie, who turns up, and the meeting with a salesman who stirs her desires and with whom she spends a rudely interrupted night. Which leaves her to Hans and an offer of marriage and her only too clear sense of doom (Virginia Fly is drowning) as she follows St. Paul's misguided dictum that it is better to marry than to bum since surely, as she goes to the altar, all hopes and dreams have been foreclosed. A most ingratiating book - Miss Huth's touch is so very tree that surely you know Virginia Fly - surely you'll want to. (Kirkus Reviews)

SUNDAY TIMES
'There is a very strong case for Huth replacing Jane Austen on the school syllabus'

About the Author
Angela Huth has written three collections of short stories, and seven 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 and has two daughters.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful, but over too soon
As good as Angela Huth's other books, which I strongly recomend paticularly to fans of Mary Wesley and Anne Tyler.

droll, disturbing satire of the first order
Don't judge this book by it's cover. Huth is closer to Muriel Spark than Joanna Trollope and this terrific novel in which a woman's state of virginity becomes a media circus is a must read. Satirically sparky, this is a brilliant social comedy written with depth and flashes of brilliant insight. This novel has a wonderful cringe factor and conjures the torpor of suburbia in a totally arresting and original way. Look out for the TV play with Anna Massey. I shall be reading more of Huth's work despite the insipid watercolour covers. It's time she was exposed to a more appreciative audience.