Finally, and at long last my novel, ‘Charlotte Deanfield’, subtitled ‘of a finer ruth’, has been published as an ebook on Kindle but also as a paperback: ISBN: 9781983172977. I had to change the title because no one, who reviewed it, knew what it meant until they had read it; my titles can be a bit obscure. “ ‘ruth’ a noun a feeling of pity, compassion, sympathy, understanding.”
I feel as if there should be a fanfare of trumpets this has been so long in coming to fruition.
I think it was easier to write my story than it was to finally get it onto the paper page. I’ve changed the title at least four times. I do hope you will think it was worth it.
This story is unashamedly for the romantics among us, I hope it will make you smile, laugh, cry, recoil in terror and then hopefully stand up and cheer. My protagonists are set in the beautiful historic city of Carlisle and the village of Dalston nestling at the foot of the Caldbeck Hills on the fringes of the English Lake District. If you thought that village life was sleepy and slow possibly this story will help you think again.
Any journey starts with just one step, which can be taken in joyful anticipation of a happy journey’s end or in trepidation of the unknown. The story invites us onto a rich and colourful stage, the plot intrigues and the characters, facing the challenges or left wanting, are skilfully lead with drama, loss, laughter and tears, to its climax.
Charlotte Deanfield is a story of adversity, enlightenment, hope and love set in early Victorian England its historical panorama interwoven with the fashions and social mores of the time.
Marriage was the only acceptable career for the female of the moneyed classes. The function of this genteel barter, dubbed the “marriage mart” was to enrich further the already wealthy and build and embellish empires. The hedonistic pleasures of fashionable society the rewards for unfulfillment, to step out of this accustomed round was to invite disaster.
Charlotte, takes this fateful step and is plunged into a harsher reality than she could ever have imagined, a tide of rejection and adversity. She is cast into a new milieu of life bringing her unexpected adversaries, new friendships, values, joys and sorrows and all the time a story, told to amuse a child, and an ancient legend parody the coincidence of reality.
Charlotte Deanfield by Angela H. Moor
Available from Amazon Books UK as a paper back, ISBN:9781983172977 and also as an eBook