Infidelities

by Angela Huth

This collection of Huth's ironic, incisive short stories centers around some very ordinary people and the extraordinary ways in which they come to terms with seduction, exploitation, and infidelity--their own and others

214 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1979

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

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely loved this collection. Usually books of short stories start off with a great story and then leave me disappointed. This particular collection was about various ways that men and women were unfaithful to each other. I loved the first story, about a housewife who rationalizes her affair as acceptable because her lover compares it to a visit to Fairyland (it doesn't mean anything, has no impact on their real lives). I expected that the book would gradually go downhill from there, but it didn't. I can't get one story out of my head, about two old friends who decide that they have to have a race to decide which of them will get to be with the (fat, balding, frankly-hard-to-see-the-attraction) man that has been sleeping with both of them. I'm excited to read more by Angela Huth.

[Clark · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a strange book for me. I live in the midwest US. Never been to another country. So some of the terms in this book were unfamiliar. Made the book even more interesting. I liked how you could see into the lives of people in the different stories. I have never read a book like this one.