This is an early 1980s memoir of a one-time debutante who left an unhappy marriage and fled to live in Oxford. She had curtsied to the Queen, had been the lady of the manor, and a magistrate for twenty years.
Finding a new niche in society included enrolling in the Open University, playing the fairy in a pantomime and the solo chef in a boil-in-a-bag hotel.
A new, important, and interesting discovery was how vulnerable Huth had become as a single woman. She joined a women’s support group and volunteered at the Oxford Rape Crises Centre. She remarried in 1993 and shared the raising of her husband's children. He died in 2017and Huth now partners a retired professor.
Patricia Huth is a poet living in the UK Cotswolds. She followed a creative writing course in Oxford for four years and has published five books of her poetry.
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