- Paperback: 378 pages
- Publisher: Abacus; New edition edition (13 April 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0349106010
- ISBN-13: 978-0349106014
- Product Dimensions: 12.4 x 19.6 x 2.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 230,800 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Angela Huth's riveting novel...is evocative and entertaining' - MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A good story, told with wit and a keen observation of detail' - TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'Piquant, witty and entertaining' - TATLER 'The quality of this novel, in appearance unpretentious, resides in its unspoilt, almost prelapsarian character... But there is a wistfulness inherent in the concept and Angela Huth is to be applauded for having explored it in this delightful and persuasive story.' THE SPECTATOR 'Huth is good on the rhythms of long marriages, like that of the Lawrences, and on the texture of life in rural wartime England.' THE TIMES 'Huth is a master of this sort of novel, steeped in period atmosphere and gentle irony.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A strong novel of intimacies and workaday relationships with an evocative sense of time and place.' DAILY MAIL '[A] warm, witty novel.' SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE 'Touchingly witty.' MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS 'Huth knows how to keep you turning the pages.' GUARDIAN 'A familiar theme handled with verve and sensitivity.' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 'A witty and fascinating story.' WALES ON SUNDAY 'Well-written and gloriously nostalgic.' DAILY MAIL 'Evocative and entertaining, this intricately woven book looks at the many ways in which women's lives have changed over half a century.' EASY ANGLIAN DAILY TIMES 'This is a wonderful story packed full of detail, atmosphere and wicked wit.' WIGAN EVENING POST
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'A good story, told with wit and a keen observation of detail'
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On an evening in early October, 1941, John Lawrence drove the three land girls home from the station. Read the first page
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you read any romantic, historical novel let it be this one. Angela Huth has been described as the modern day Jane Austen and indeed there is a likeness in style. The descriptions and imaginative use of words make you feel like you're part of the book not the reader. This book will pull on your heart strings,make your heart soar, and of course make you laugh! This book is not just another slushy romance. It tackles real issues that effected real people. Read it and it will become a "classic" to you.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is excellent, the charcters are realistic and you'd love to meet them, the description is so vivid that you believe you are in a room with the characters. This book will make you laugh, and cry. The only negative point about this book is the less interesting B-story. Overall though this book tells you a lot about what it was like to be a land girl, as well as being an excellent piece of fiction.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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After their farmhands are conscripted in 1941, John & Faith Lawrence enroll in England's new Land Army, which sends young women out of the cities into the fields. These three girls bring to distant Dorset high adventure, clashes in culture & all their passion for life.
Each girl is from a different parts of the nation & society, each is blossoming into a woman in an era when promiscuity & virginity plagued them as much as air-raid sirens heightened fears for any tomorrows. Each girl brings to Hallows Farm at the end of summer, a fresh & funny novelty about farm work, an engaged heart & an easing for a worried, weary family.
Each man, on the otherhand, in uniform or out, suddenly has to struggle with duty & their ideas about newcomers. With the arrival of a bevy of pretty, personable, unattached women & the very real threat of being dead by morning, the men are thrust into the role of teachers in more ways than one.
To begin Land Girls & continue to delve into its quietly evocative pages is to hear the stories of our mothers & grandmothers. How placid & seemly it all was on the surface & how passionate & premeditated beneath.
Well worth reading. I loved it all: where it took me & everyone I met there, even wizened, thwarted old Ratty & his fearsome Post-Mistress wife.
Memories of my own gave a harmony to Angela Huth's Land Girls as have few books. Charming, hilarious, scary & rich in the dramas, fears & epiphanies that once made up our wartime lives.
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Captivating
An excellent books which was captivating from the start. When reading the book it felt like I was there in person and experienced all the emotions the characters were experiencing. Read more
Published on 9 Nov 2009 by VG
Nostalgic and Captivating
Recently I watched the David Leland film, "The Land Girls," and I enjoyed it so much that I went in search of the book on which the movie was loosely based. I was not disappointed. Read more
Published on 12 Aug 2009 by richievee
not just ornithologically challenged
Swifts in April, flocks of dunnocks... does this author know anything about birds? But the worst gaffe is when her farmer, in 1943!!!, talks about the atom bomb. Read more
Published on 17 May 2008 by Michael Scuffil
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