The Moon Field
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Judith Allnatt. The Moon Field
THE. MOON FIELD. JUDITH ALLNATT
PROLOGUE
1. WATERCOLOUR
2. AT THE TWA DOGS
3. DANCE CARD
4. MEASURING UP
5. FRIAR’S CRAG
6. FEATHERS ON THE STREAM
7. BLUE ENVELOPE
8. POLDERS
9. STUDIO PORTRAIT
10. HOME COMFORTS
11. PLAYING CARDS
12. EARTH
13. THE RUINED HOUSE
14. CHRISTMAS POST
15. TIN
16. 26 LEONARD STREET
17. BREAKING
18. THE ALHAMBRA
19. CAT BELLS
20. PASTE BROOCH
21. THE WALLED GARDEN
22. CASTLERIGG
23. STONES
24. NO MAN’S LAND
25. WALKING OUT
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A Q&A with Judith Allnatt
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALSO BY JUDITH ALLNATT
COPYRIGHT
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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In memory of my mother,
Isabel Gillard,
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When she spoke of her parents, she always had a note of worry in her voice. Her father was often abroad attending to his business interests, leaving the land and Home Farm to the estate manager, and her mother to her own resources. Mrs Walter, too much alone, suffered ‘sick-headaches’ and fatigue and often withdrew to her room. Violet once let slip that her father, even when back in London, frequently stayed at his club and George wondered what had caused the breach between her parents, but asked no further, guessing at the hurt that a daughter would feel to know that she was not enough to tempt a father home.
From her room, Mrs Walter instructed the housekeeper, Mrs Burbidge, and took her lunch on a tray. Afterwards she wrote letters, but later in the afternoon, she required Violet’s company, wanting her to sit with her and talk or read aloud. As the sun grew hotter in the afternoon, George would notice Violet glancing back at the copse within which the house was hidden or at her silver wristwatch. He would rack his brain for a question. ‘What was the town like, where your school was? What did you sketch on your picnics?’ Anything to stop her saying the words he dreaded: ‘I must go.’
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