Angela Huth Books in Order

Separated from her second husband, Clare Lyall wonders what place men should have in her life. Meeting the unconventional Joshua Heron and befriending an outspoken older woman offer new possibilities, along with fresh uncertainty about love.

Virginia Fly is thirty-one, outwardly sensible, and privately consumed by romantic fantasies. A visit from her American pen pal and an unexpected television appearance bring new suitors, leaving her to weigh real encounters against imagined passion.

Brenda and Evans conduct their affair in a chicken farm hayloft until a mysterious woman offers them privacy. As his possessiveness turns threatening, Brenda finds understanding with her flatmate, exposing the tensions beneath their everyday lives.

Emily believes her parents share an unchanging world of happiness and affection. When their relationship begins to alter, she struggles to understand the contradictions of adult behaviour and the upheaval spreading through her once secure childhood.

Once a successful theatre director, Harry Antlers becomes obsessed with Viola Windrush after her New York audition. Following her to Norfolk and London, he pursues a love that draws him further from certainty and towards desperation.

After losing two silver balloons, Eugenie and Luli climb a ladder into Cloud Cuckoo Land. Their search becomes an adventure among soft clouds and unusual inhabitants, including the crowned Cuckoo King, before they must find their way home.

Twenty-five Englishwomen discuss their clothes, revealing how budgets, daily routines and personal tastes shape their wardrobes. Photographs accompany candid accounts of dressing, shopping and the influences that distinguish each woman’s approach to what she wears.

Seventy newly commissioned poems introduce children to work by forty-nine contributors, including John Agard, Roy Fuller and Wes Magee. Jane Ray’s illustrations accompany an anthology that brings professional poets together with people from other backgrounds.

Lovers, spouses, and lonely strangers pursue connection in these stories of romantic hopes and disappointments. A secret dancing lesson, a seaside sacrifice, and a rivalry between friends reveal the comic and painful consequences of wanting love.

Several married couples prepare to attend the Farthingoes’ ball while concealing desires, anxieties, and disappointments from their partners. As the gathering approaches, their private lives reveal how much can remain unspoken even within apparently comfortable marriages.

Three women from different backgrounds arrive at a wartime farm to replace absent male workers. Hard labor, unexpected attractions, and the pressures of war test them as their shared room becomes the beginning of lasting friendship.

Alice invites old lovers to dinner, expecting a harmless reunion after twenty years. When an additional guest arrives determined to reclaim her husband Tom, the evening exposes how fragile their apparently settled marriage may be.

Summer affairs, theatrical rivalries, suburban passions, and imagined lives expose the distance between what people want and what they admit. These stories follow disappointed lovers and quietly resentful partners through moments of longing, jealousy, and revenge.

Annie and Myrtle have shared a lifelong friendship in a Scottish fishing village, despite very different romantic fortunes. A devastating accident reveals the jealousy, grief, and betrayals concealed beneath their loyalty to one another.

Grace and William have settled into a marriage sustained by painting, music, and familiar routines. Two new attachments disturb that calm: a young man unsettles Grace, while William’s fascination with a viola player takes a dangerous turn.

After his father dies, George abandons a legal career to run the family farm. Old friendships and an unexpected visitor complicate his new life, while livestock disease and political pressures threaten the rural community around him.

Selections from three earlier collections accompany two new stories, one about Christmas and competitive friendships, the other about a woman captivated by a conversation about Byron. Together they explore the unexpected turns of ordinary relationships.

Memorial addresses recall the lives of writers, actors, politicians, sportspeople, and less famous friends. Selected by Angela Huth, these eulogies combine personal anecdotes, affection, humor, and grief to show how a life can be remembered.

Comfortable couples conceal affairs while lonely and struggling people search for consolation in ordinary life. These stories explore how small incidents expose private hopes, disappointments, and the fragile arrangements people make to endure love and loss.

After the war, former Land Girl Prue seeks a husband who can offer comfort and security. Marriage brings material protection, but memories of Hallows Farm and friendships left behind complicate her search for happiness.

Interwoven voices follow people navigating relationships, work, and changing expectations, from a teenage girl to a man returning to London. A woman making elaborate fantasy masks joins this portrait of lives shaped by private hopes and emotions.

During wartime, Ruby designs a revealing two-piece outfit and begins dreaming of success as a dressmaker. Discovering that an American has created something similar does little to extinguish an ambition that continues shaping her relationships.

Angela Huth recalls an unconventional childhood among glamorous parents, her reluctant debutante years, and the path into journalism and fiction. Personal memories, family relationships, and private fears shape her account of becoming a writer.