The Moon Field

Allnatt, Judith

The Borough Press

Hidden in a soldier's tin box are a painting, a pocket watch, and a dance card - keepsakes of three lives. It is 1914. George Farrell cycles through the tranquil Cumberland fells to deliver a letter, unaware that it will change his life. George has fallen for the rich and beautiful daughter at the Manor House, Miss Violet, but when she lets slip the contents of the letter George is heartbroken to find that she is already promised to another man. George escapes his heartbreak by joining the patriotic rush to war, but his past is not so easily avoided. His rite of passage into adulthood leaves him believing that no woman will be able to love the man he has become.

Literature & Fiction

Literary

The Silk Factory

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

A beautiful and eerie story of love and memory from the author of The Moon Field.
Anyone who’s ever lost someone is haunted
Rosie Milford inherits a house in an old silk factory after her mother’s death and moves there with her young children. The discovery of a shocking truth about her own childhood, when she is already reeling from the breakup of her marriage, fills her with distrust and fearfulness. Then she starts seeing a strange child, wandering in the garden, who seems as lost as she is.
In 1812, silk master Septimus Fowler has grand plans to keep his factory in step with the industrial revolution: he will plant mulberry trees, rear silkworms and import new mechanized looms. Orphan Beulah Fiddement works as a bobbin winder and has secrets that the master would go to any lengths to get. Caught up in a dark adult world of illicit love, rebellion and revenge, Beulah must put away her childhood and draw on all her spirit to protect those she loves.
Beulah’s story of guilt and bravery will echo down two centuries and change Rosie’s life as she struggles to overcome the hand of her own past and find redemption.

British & Irish

The Poet's Wife

It is 1841; Patty Clare is married to John Clare, peasant poet, genius and madman. Patty loves him deeply but he seems lost to her and obsessed with an idealized memory of a woman that she cannot match. Can she ever restore his true identity, and can she find it in herself to forgive?

Doubleday, UK

Jess would just like to be a normal teenager, go to dances and kiss boys, take her exams and dream of a future far away from the remote farm she shares with her brother and brutal father. Following her discovery of her mother’s old diary, Jess begins to uncover the shocking truth about her disappearance.

A Mile of River

Black Swan.

It is 1841; Patty Clare is married to John Clare, peasant poet, genius and madman. Patty loves him deeply but he seems lost to her and obsessed with an idealized memory of a woman that she cannot match. Can she ever restore his true identity, and can she find it in herself to forgive?From the Hardcover edition.

Jess lives on a remote farm with her brutal father. Her mother left years ago and Jess, just wanting to be a normal teenager, is struggling with the roles of mother figure to her brother, and skivvy for her father. Daydreaming about her mother's return, Jess finds her old diary and uncovers the shocking truth about her disappearance.

A Mile Of River

Contemporary

Isis Audio Books

Isis Audio

It is 1841. Patty Clare is married to John Clare: peasant poet, genius and madman. Travelling home one day, Patty is shocked to find her husband sitting at the side of the road, having absconded from a lunatic asylum. Delighted to see him, she is devastated when it becomes clear that John's mental health has deteriorated, and he now thinks himself married twice: to both Patty and his childhood sweetheart. Patty still loves John deeply but he seems lost to her, obsessed with the idealised memory of another woman. She finds herself consumed with jealousy and struggling to cope with her unruly family. Will she ever be able to conquer her own anger and hurt and reconcile with this man she now barely knows?

Isis Large Print

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The Moon Field

The Moon Field

The Silk Factory

The Silk Factory

The Poet's Wife

A Mile of River

The Poet's Wife

A Mile Of River

A Mile of River

The Poet's Wife