A review by dogearedandfurry
Land Girls by Angela Huth

2.0

This could have been good - a chance to shine a light on a group of women too long overlooked. But it doesn't. Instead it delivers caricatures of characters - a shrewish wife of the farm manager, conveniently dispatched to an insane asylum just before the end, by which point you'd really had enough of her. Taciturn and hard working farmers. A randy young farmer's son who is rejected from signing up due to asthma, but is apparently fit enough to do hard labour on the farm and shag two of the land girls. Three young land girls - Ag (short for Agapanthus... no really 🙄), who the farm manager privately calls the holy one. Stella, who sings and dances like an angel, and Prue, the raging nymphomaniac who'll sleep with anything masculine even if she's lost interest, unless she has another guy lined up. Ag judges Prue for sleeping with one guy, only to later approach the man and say oh by the way she's in love with a guy she's not sure knows she exists, but just in case anything does happen in the future, she wants to have some "experience", so could he be so kind as to deflower her.

No, seriously. I shit you not. The author actually says deflower at one point. And oh it's fine to judge the nympho, until it's convenient for you...

And as for the purple prose. Never one flowery descriptor of the weather/flowers/someone's hair/feelings blah blah blah when you can have three.

This could have been good. Tell the realistic story. Instead, it falls woefully short. Too long, too flowery, too cliched and too predictable. Avoid.