A captivating saga of thwarted passions, set in nineteenth-century Devon In August 1883, the first steam train on the new Princetown branch line makes its halting passage across Dartmoor, stopping near the quarrymens hamlet of Foggintor. For Ling Southcott and her young sister, Fanny, this is a momentous event, for the railway will connect their isolated village to the neighbouring town of Tavistock, and even Plymouth. Ling realizes that the arrival of the railway has the power to change her life, by making the outside world accessible.
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Crosse turns in another crowd-pleaser, and those with an affinity for the author’s beloved Dartmoor, the setting of her past historicals, will welcome this latest and its 1880s locale on “the barren moorland.” Heather, nicknamed Ling, has taught her parents to read, cultivated her speech, and now works as an assistant teacher, yet she still dreams of possibilities beyond the moor. Then the new Princetown Railway’s first steam train, a mesmerizing thing of noise and power, suddenly makes the outside world accessible. Powerfully written scenes of Ling and her heavily pregnant sister fighting through a fierce blizzard on the moor and a savage assault bring cinematic energy to this engrossing romance of passion and deceit sparked by a handsome stranger who risks his life to save Ling. Her heart is stirred, though she is a quarryman’s daughter, and this outsider, “educated and from a class she could never aspire to, . . . is the stuff of dreams.” Fans will devour this and look forward to Crosse’s next dreamy tale. --Whitney Scott
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Crosse turns in another crowd-pleaser, and those with an affinity for the author's beloved Dartmoor, the setting of her past historicals, will welcome this latest and its 1880s locale on "the barren moorland." Heather, nicknamed Ling, has taught her parents to read, cultivated her speech, and now works as an assistant teacher, yet she still dreams of possibilities beyond the moor. Then the new Princetown Railway's first steam train, a mesmerizing thing of noise and power, suddenly makes the outside world accessible. Powerfully written scenes of Ling and her heavily pregnant sister fighting through a fierce blizzard on the moor and a savage assault bring cinematic energy to this engrossing romance of passion and deceit sparked by a handsome stranger who risks his life to save Ling. Her heart is stirred, though she is a quarryman's daughter, and this outsider, "educated and from a class she could never aspire to, . . . is the stuff of dreams." Fans will devour this and look forward to Crosse's next dreamy tale. --Booklist, 1st January 2010
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