Product Description

This new and timely anthology contains the very best of Huth's three short story collections - MONDAY LUNCH IN FAIRYLAND, SUCH VISITORS and ANOTHER KIND OF CINDERELLA - together with two wonderful new pieces: 'Angels Bending, Near The Earth' - a tale of Christmas and competitive friends: and 'The Wife and a Half', about a woman bewitched by a conversation about Byron.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #523828 in Books
• Published on: 2003-02-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 368 pages

Review
For LAND GIRLS:*'Riveting . evocative and entertaining' DAILY MAIL *'Huth's controlled, eloquent style has been compared to Jane Austen's, but her talent is entirely original' THE TIMES *'Piquant, witty and entertaining' TATLER For WIVES OF THE FISHERMEN *'A bonfire of a novel . a subtle, powerful story' MAIL ON SUNDAY *'The story is genuinely engrossing. Angela Huth's brand of excellence has rarely been seen to better effect' S. TEL.

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.

Customer Reviews

Perceptive and Entertaining.
I don't always appreciate short stories, sometimes feeling I'm not getting my money's worth in terms of depth and characterization. Such is not the case here. The stories in themselves may on the surface seem quite simple and straightforward but they reveal great perceptiveness of human nature and motives on the part of the author. She specializes in characters who are lonely or outsiders and even if some of them are rather unpleasant we are made to feel sympathy for them. Above all, unlike so much fiction one reads, these stories stay in the memory long after one has finished them.