The Moon Field, Judith Allnatt
The Moon Field, Judith Allnatt
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The Moon Field

Author: Judith Allnatt

Narrator: Geraldine Sharrock

Unabridged: 12 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 01/16/2014

Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cleopatra on November 28, 2013

George is just eighteen years old, lives with his parents and his younger siblings Ted and Lilly when he first met Violet during his deliveries as a postman. Violet was out for a walk taking photos as an escape from her duties, mainly being a companion to her sick mother The difference in their live......more

Goodreads review by Angela on February 28, 2019

I'll admit that this wasn't what I expected. I thought this would be a love story. This was about war. A raw and graphic novel about war. I didn't hate it though. In fact it made me appreciate all that our soldiers go through during war. Reading what George went through before, during and after his......more

Goodreads review by Deborah on November 14, 2013

I absolutely loved 'A Mile of River', so when this book came up on 'Vine' I jumped at it. Beginning in 1914, the book tells the story of George, a postman who joins up after being rejected as a suitor by Violet, the lady of the Manor. George gets drunk, and then is persuaded to volunteer for active......more

Goodreads review by Elisabeth on May 20, 2014

The year is 1914 and World War One has just started. George is a young man who is a postman, delivering mail in the idyllic Cumbrian Fells. Violet is a young lady from the manor house recently engaged. Although out of his reach, George has fallen in love with Violet and wants her to reciprocate his......more

Goodreads review by Ant on June 12, 2014

Judith Allnatt's account of George Farrell as a young soldier during World War I is a bit of a mixed bag. It's not badly written, but at times it felt a bit mid-market, middle aged women's, slightly disposable romance. The setting was well realised and on the whole, the dialogue seemed realistic, bu......more

Quotes

‘Genuinely and deeply moving’ THE TIMES ‘Deeply engaging and unsentimental…really memorable’ CHARLES PALLISER, author of The Quincunx Praise for The Poet’s Wife: ‘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: 'A novel of rare insight, exquisitely written. A standing ovation for this debut’ Michael Morpurgo ‘'Excellent…The writing is restrained but powerful and the description of that remorseless heat is masterful’NEW BOOKS MAGAZINE

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