Sun Child

ANGELA HUTH

Literature & Fiction

London: Collins

Fontana

Wives of the Fishermen.

Contemporary

Little,Brown

The Handles have one of those quiet, suburban marriages that has ticked along for decades without anything very momentous happening.  William, a distinguished violinist and leader of the Elmtree Quartet, and Grace, a modest watercolorist, enjoy a serene domestic routine where easy silence, an acceptance of each other's ways, is the norm. The two spend each day in their respective corners of the house-William upstairs practicing, and Grace downstairs working on her latest wildflower illustration-and they even take careful steps to prevent a chance encounter.  For what do people who've been married that long say when they meet on the stairs?  But just as quickly as their routine emerged, it is yanked away by the winds of change.   When the long-serving viola player resigns from William's quartet, the Elmtree hires Bonnie, a brilliant young player with perfect dimples and an ample bosom.  In no time, William is smitten.  Meanwhile, Grace's days have become enlivened by visits from Lucien, a troubled young man who lives down the street with the mother he loathes.  Though his presence unnerves her, he provides her days with a bittersweet frisson, and before long Grace is captivated.  As William and Grace secretly find their hearts tugged in opposite directions, the once cozy couple moves closer to confrontation. But with the introduction of sudden menace, the story takes a darker turn-until real-life horror explodes and a murderous twists sends their world spinning.  From the acclaimed author of Land Girls and Wives of the Fisherman comes an elegant, if shocking, dissection of a middle-class marriage.  In Easy Silence, Huth combines remarkable insight with biting wit to create a delicious black comedy.

'EASY SILENCE (A LITTLE, BROWN BOOK)'

'Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.' Emily has not yet reached the age of judgement. For her, normality consists of contentment and magic and there is no possibility of change in the seeming happiness of her parents - Fen, beautiful and mercurial, and Idle, a hardworking and gentle man. She loves them both and her image of them is together - indivisible, laughing, dancing, making every day scintilate with life. When change does come, Emily is a helpless spectator, confused by the puzzle of ill-fitting events. It is seldom that an exceptional book is written about a child's world for it requires unusual imagination and a sharp, delicate touch. Combining these, Angela Huth looks at the vicissitudes of grown-up behaviour through the eyes of a child who watches and suffers from them. The situation - an all too familiar one - is treated with both poignant humour and ruthless honesty.

Time Warner Paperbacks*

Of Love and Slaughter

Time Warner Books Uk

invitation to the married Life

ABACUS +

Land Girls

Genre Fiction

<p>William and Grace share what seems to them an ideal marriage. Both in their 50s, neither has any reason to believe that their relationship could be threatened. But when he meets the beautiful Bonnie, William begins to think the unthinkable.</p>

Easy Silence

Firebird Distributing

SOUTH OF THE LIGHTS is the story of Evans & Brenda, whose happiest hours are spent in the hayloft, the only roof under which they can be alone togetehr - until the mysterious, romantic Augusta comes to their aid. Evans' desire for Brenda results sometimes in passion, sometimes in violence but Brenda finds sympathy in the company of the fragile nd sweet-natured Lark. NOWHERE GIRL - Estranged from her 2nd husband Clare is less sure than ever about the role men should play in her life. When she meets Joshua, she isn't exactly thirsting for love but she is mildly impressed when Joshua stubs her cigarette out on his thumb & is swayed further by the advice of her new friend, Mrs Fox. 'Take a lover', she says. 'It's better to have a lover when you're young than neurosis when you're old.' WANTING - Harry, a once-successful theatre director, falls obsessively in love withViola Windrush when she comes to audition in New York. He sends her 100 red roses & is convinced that her lack of response is temporary. He is certain that if he makes enough such gestures she will be his. His obsession takes him to her beautiful Norfolk house & on to London. Finally he is driven to desperation..

Angela Huth Omnibus : South of the Lights, Nowhere Girl and Wanting

Little Brown U.K.

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