Wanting

by Angela Huth

Harry Antlers, a once successful theatre director, falls in love with Viola Windrush when she comes to New York for an audition. He convinces himself that her lack of response is purely temporary and is certain that she will soon be his.

Genres: Novels, Fiction

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Daughter of actor Harold Huth, english novelist Angela Huth married journalist and travel writer Quentin Crewe in the 1960s and with him had a daughter. She presented programmes on the BBC, including How It Is and Why and Man Alive.

She also writes plays for radio, television and stage, and is a well-known freelance journalist, critic and broadcaster. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

She has been married to a don, James Howard-Johnston, since 1978. They live in Warwickshire and have one daughter, Eugenie Teasley.

Reviews

[Vickie · Rating 3 out of 5]

(1994) Well-written and enjoyable light read. Young woman (Viola) lives in Norfolk rectory, plus flat in large, inherited, house in London. While visiting New York she encounters Harry Antlers, who falls obsessively in love with her and pursues her to UK. Story follows Viola, her brother Gideon, and several other characters having relationships based on love, sex, and various combinations of the two.

[Denise · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is pretty disjointed and the characters only half-developed. It was quite disappointing to me as I loved the "Land Girls" and "Fishermens' Wives".