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Title: Easy Silence

Author: Angela Huth

Narrator: Jilly Bond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-18-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The Handles, happily married for many years, have reached the point in their lives where easy silence, an acceptance of each other's ways, is the norm. Grace has her painting, and the children's reference book she has long been working on. William has his music and his string quartet, even if his name isn't quite spelled like the great composer. Then Grace encounters a young man, Lucien, who adopts her, haunts her, threatens her - and provides her days with a bittersweet frisson. And William becomes so besotted by his new viola player, he decides to murder his wife....

Members Reviews:

Angela Huth should be very angry at her publisher

Huth should be very angry at her publisher, who apparently is Thomas Dunne. Here is a sentence: "On the step was a milk bottle surrounded by a circle of six ." From the next paragraph I can see that the missing word is "tangerines." I cannot tell you all the other errors. The publisher will have to hire a copyeditor to find them all, and there are many.

This novel gives pleasure to the discriminating reader. It deserves to be on Kindle, word for word, the same as in paperback. The present Kindle version is disgustingly full of errors.

I have read Easy Silence three times before and loved every word. It is creative and not written on a high-school level. A few days ago I bought the Kindle version and I'm enjoying it all over again, except for all the errors in this Kindle version.

Easy Silence is on the level of the delightful middle years of Kingsley Amis (which are far better than Lucky Jim)and the best of Graham Greene, but not the burlesque Greene of Travels with my Aunt. Huth is sensitive, but witty -- I sometimes laugh out loud in the middle of a serious paragraph.

Disappointing

I have loved the other Angela Huth's novels, Wives of the Fisherman, and Land Girls, and was disappointed with the gravity of this one. Am a compulsive "finisher," but had to prod myself along and found it wanting in content. She always writes beautifully about relationships but this, for me, just wasn't a very engaging story. Sorry.

A long-time marriage runs into a crisis...

First off, I admit I'm a fan of Angela Huth's books and I couldn't wait to get my hands on this one. I wasn't dissappointed. This is a sometimes comic, sometimes poignant glimpse at the life of a couple, William and Grace, whose marriage has gotten a bit too routine. And then a lovely young musician enters the picture, a musician who happens to be joining William's music quartet,taking the place of a viola player who has resigned. William is entranced by her. Meanwhile Grace herself is not sitting alone, bereft and rejected. Although she's unaware of her husband's passions for another woman, Grace is also feeling drawn to another man. If you think this story is going to move along in predictable ways, think again - there's another horror around the corner, one this couple can't anticipate. I hope I've perked your interest in this book - I'd love to think another reader has discovered the joys of this author's writing.