Angela Huth
Forfatter af Land Girls
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Værker af Angela Huth
The Englishwoman's Wardrobe (Twenty-Five Englishwomen talk about their Clothes) (1986) 14 eksemplarer
Falske verden 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Of Love and Life: The Jewels of Tessa Kent / A Kept Woman / Wives of the Fisherman (1999) 6 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- Huth, Angela
- Fødselsdato
- 1938-08-29
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Bopæl
- Oxfordshire, England, UK
Warwickshire, England, UK - Erhverv
- novelist
journalist - Relationer
- Crewe, Candida (daughter)
Howard-Johnston, James (2nd husband)
Huth, Harold (father)
Crewe, Quentin (1st husband) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
- Kort biografi
- Huth is the daughter of the actor Harold Huth. She left school at age 16 in order to paint and to study art in both France and Italy. At 18 she travelled, mostly alone, across the United States before returning to England to work on a variety of newspapers and magazines. She married the journalist and travel writer Quentin Crewe in the 1960s and with him had a daughter, Candida. She presented programmes on the BBC, including How It Is and Why and Man Alive.
She is now most recognised as a successful writer. She has written three collections of short stories and eleven novels, including Land Girls, which was made into the 1998 feature film The Land Girls starring Rachel Weisz and Anna Friel. She also writes plays for radio, television and stage, and is a well-known freelance journalist, critic and broadcaster. Her play The Understanding ran at the Strand Theatre in 1982 and starred Ralph Richardson and Joan Greenwood.
She has been married to a don, James Howard-Johnston, since 1978. They live in Oxfordshire and have one daughter, Eugenie.
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An entertaining book set during WWII in England. The farming life may seem familiar if you've read other books set during that time, such as James Herriot's memoirs. Three young women from very different backgrounds come to a farm to serve as "Land Girls," paid volunteer laborers meant to help farmers as young men laborers and assistants were called up for military service.
A frame story wraps around the tale, where two of the three are waiting for the third to turn up for their annual reunion luncheon in a modern restaurant.
There's certainly a good helping of references about the farm work and the way the Land Girls operated, but there's more about the romantic/sexual/emotional lives of the young women and the family around them. Nothing graphic, really, but certainly modern-novelish.
A good light read which appears to have been well-researched.… (mere)
A frame story wraps around the tale, where two of the three are waiting for the third to turn up for their annual reunion luncheon in a modern restaurant.
There's certainly a good helping of references about the farm work and the way the Land Girls operated, but there's more about the romantic/sexual/emotional lives of the young women and the family around them. Nothing graphic, really, but certainly modern-novelish.
A good light read which appears to have been well-researched.… (mere)
I love this book so much that I once told my cousin "You can't take that with you!" when she was putting it in her carry-on bag. Sorry, Lindy-Loo!
This is the story of three women - Prue, Ag and Stella - who served in England during WWII as land girls. Land girls volunteered to serve their country by working at rural farms since so many men were serving in the military who had previously helped farmers. These three women from disparate backgrounds lived and worked at the farm owned by the Lawrences and their son, Joe. Joe's asthma prevented him from enlisting in the military to his great disappointment. Despite their differences, these women bonded with each other and the Lawrences and shared a work ethic that impressed the family. The work was demanding and included caring for cows, pigs and chickens, all of which were foreign to city girls.
This was an interesting glimpse into WWII in the farming communities, and the toll it took. The women's love interests were a significant part of the novel, and the epilogue answered every question. I liked all the characters, and felt a particular compassion for the elderly farm hand, Ratty Tyler, at the Lawrence farm as his wife descended from ill-tempered harridan into madness.… (mere)
This was an interesting glimpse into WWII in the farming communities, and the toll it took. The women's love interests were a significant part of the novel, and the epilogue answered every question. I liked all the characters, and felt a particular compassion for the elderly farm hand, Ratty Tyler, at the Lawrence farm as his wife descended from ill-tempered harridan into madness.… (mere)
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- 33
- Also by
- 4
- Medlemmer
- 835
- Popularitet
- #30,605
- Vurdering
- 3.5
- Anmeldelser
- 19
- ISBN
- 203
- Sprog
- 7
The details of life on the farm are interesting and quite realistic. The relationships between the girls and Joe a bit less so. I did enjoy the flow of the story, though, and the unexpected outcome beat the formulaic one I was bracing for. By and large, an easy and enjoyable read.… (mere)