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Title: The Stubble Field by Mary Nichols ISBN: 1-85797-177-9 Publisher: Trafalgar Square Pub. Date: April, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: Historical romance set in the 1850s
Comment: Mary Nichols has written a number of Regencies, this is not one of them. The Victorian era could be harsh especially to an orphan and this is the tale of one. This is not the type of book I prefer to read and so the three stars means more I don't wish to pass judgement on it. It might be yours and Mary Nichols is not a bad author.

From the dust cover of the Orion hard back edition...

'Sarah Jane had cast a spell on him that first day on the banks of the stream, which would bind him to her for the rest of his life - and whoever or whatever came between them could never alter that.'

Set in the mid-Victorian era, against the wide water-colour skies of the Fens, The Stubble Field is the story of Sarah Jane Winterday, a workhouse orphan who yearns to be a lady. While skivvying at Chevington House, she enjoys a rapturous summer liaison with a mysterious young man, who gives her two love tokens: one is a golden apple, the other, her Son, Jason.

Pregnant, and dismissed from her job, Sarah Jane joins a hand of railway navvies who are on the tramp looking for work. This is the age of the railway. All over the country track is being laid, tunnels drilled, and speculators are competing to make their fortunes. Her involvement in this world, first as a navvy wife, and later as a landowner, leads to a fated return to Chevington, and the rekindling of old loves. Meanwhile, the lessons of the years have taught Sarah Jane that her wish to be a lady was but a childish ambition; becoming a woman is what really counts.

Reflecting the energy and pioneering spirit of the 1850s, which it brings to glorious life, this powerful love story is illuminated throughout by the golden apple - a precious symbol of the human heart.