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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