- Paperback: 360 pages
- Publisher: Abacus; New edition edition (15 Jan 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0349115753
- ISBN-13: 978-0349115757
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 505,785 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.
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Angela Huth is one our most consistently enthralling novelists, with a career that spans such critically acclaimed works as LAND GIRLS, WIVES OF THE FISHERMEN and OF LOVE AND SLAUGHTER. But she is also a master of the short story, as this succulent retrospective spanning 25 years reveals. This new anthology contains the very best of Angela'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. These are vignettes and epiphanies that bear all the hallmarks of Angela's writing skills: her eye for description, her ear for dialogue, her understanding of the subtle intricacies of human relationships. In 'Men Friends', a funeral reveals the truth about an odd couple's relationship; in 'The Bull', a rampaging animal provides the impetus for a woman to change her life; and in 'Sudden Dancer', a husband's plan to surprise his wife ends up with him being surprised himself.
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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.
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