Land Girls

by Angela Huth

Book Overview

The West Country in wartime, and the land girls are gathering on the farm of John and Faith Lawrence. Prue, a man-eating hairdresser from Manchester; Ag, a cerebral Cambridge undergraduate; and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312171951
• ISBN13: 9780312171957
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Land Girls

In this 20th Century based novel, ?Land Girls? by Angela Huth, the author takes three girls through a life changing experience. Huth takes wealthy city girls Aga, Prue, and Stella to live on a farm. On this farm, these girls have to perform jobs that men would do if they were not at war. WWII is going on and it will take a while for these girls to get adjusted. ?This place was horribly old-fashioned, Gloomy, dingy.?(p.10) Everything was terribly different from home, but even though these girls came from different backgrounds, they help each other survive. They are bound to become friends for life. These young girls will encounter love, honor, friendship, and courage through the adventures in this novel. Angela Huth wrote a great novel in which she is able to put war together with love and friendship. I think that it is a great talent to be able to put all these concepts together in one book. I also like the way the characters were chosen because they are very different, which means that the reader will have fun reading about the different issues these characters will encounter. The change in life styles for these girls is also a big deal that makes the story more interesting because we will see how the girls change from their peaceful lives at home to this farm. All the girls encounter love with a certain boy, which is also interesting because we see how love acts on different people. The best thing in this book is the way the author takes all these characters, which are strangers to each other and take them through many adventures that, will make them become friends for life. This novel could be recommended to both men and women. To women because the novel is all about how women are able to do as much as men when it comes to hard work. With this novel, women will get the encouragement that we can do man jobs and that we are as good or even better than they are when it comes to inner strength. Because the women in this novel have plenty of inner strength for joining the Women?s Land Army and working for men. Men should read this novel so they can learn to appreciate women. With this novel men will see that women are very hard working who will do many things for them. Men will realize that women are not useless and that they can carry on with or without men. I would not recommend this novel to younger, immature people because it contains some sexuality. ?Get your knickers off as fast as you can is my belief, before the poor buggers are shot down. Bit of quick fun, then off to the next one.?(p.180) Overall this novel is very interesting and adventurous; reading it was a very exciting experience.

What a wonderful book!

Realistic and heartwarming. I could not put this book down. You never knew what would happen next to the three girls who lived on the farm and learned to love it during WWII. Great book for a snowy evening or a long weekend!

Jumped right in and couldn't put down!

I thouroughly enjoy reading about this era in history - both non-fiction and fiction. The 3 main characters were all very interesting and so different. My aunt loaned me her copy and as soon as I read the first few pages I was hooked and I had a hard time putting it down. I have now picked up a copy to give to a dear friend for Christmas.

Fantastic........I couldn't put it down.

One of the best books I have ever read. A brilliant study of three totally different personalities thrown into a situation where comraderie took over. I can't wait to see the film.

INTERESTING!

It's a good read. Had never heard of the "land girls before, looked interesting, and it was!. Good characters, reminded me of some of my own girlfriends, the wild one, the shy one, the perfect one. Liked learning more about farm life in England at the time, sort of made me yearn for a good day of hard yet rewarding work. Also loved the older men in the story dealing with their lost youth, their dreams, their crushes on the young girls, it was sweet. And oh, that farm boy, busy lad I must say! All in all a good book, hope it makes a great movie.