The Moon Field
- Author Judith Allnatt
- Narrator Geraldine Sharrock
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 16 January 2014
- Run Time 12 hours and 47 minutes
- Format x-book®
- Genre Classic fiction, Historical fiction.
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What to expect
A poignant story of love and redemption, The Moon Field explores the loss of innocence through a war that destroys everything except the bonds of human hearts.
No man’s land is a place in the heart: pitted, cratered and empty as the moon…
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.
A poignant story of love and redemption, The Moon Field explores the loss of innocence in a war that destroys everything except the bonds of the human heart.
Critics Review
‘Genuinely and deeply moving’ THE TIMES
n‘Deeply engaging and unsentimental…really memorable’ CHARLES PALLISER, author of The Quincunx
nPraise for The Poet’s Wife:
n‘Allnatt gives her an affecting, beautifully written afterlife’
THE TIMES
‘'This is a beautifully written, poignant novel, lyrically descriptive of the landscape, detailed in the country life of the time and reminiscent of the gentle style of the genius peasant poet'
CHOICE MAGAZINE
Praise for A Mile of River:
n'A novel of rare insight, exquisitely written. A standing ovation for this debut’ Michael Morpurgo
n‘'Excellent…The writing is restrained but powerful and the description of that remorseless heat is masterful’
NEW BOOKS MAGAZINE
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