Estella

by Sheila Radley

Estella wakes and finds herself looking up at the night sky and realises after a few minutes that she is lying on damp grass. She slowly recovers and sits up to find she is sitting in a field looking at Stonehenge. Her horse and close by grazing. She manages to stand despite a throbbing body and head and calls to Prince. She manages to mount feeling like a novice and realising where she is turns Prince to endeavor to ride to her country home which is some miles away. it takes her all night to make that journey and eventually turns in through the gates and up to the front door. Exhausted she almost falls out of the saddle but managed to reach out for the door before falling to the floor in the hallway. A few minutes later the housekeeper peers over the banisters and comes to her rescue.

647 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 8, 2024

About the author

Sheila Mary Robinson was born and brought up in rural Northamptonshire, one of the fortunate means-tested generation whose further education was free. She went from her village school via high school to London University, where she read history.

She served for nine years as an education officer in the Women’s Royal Air Force, then worked variously as a teacher, a clerk in a shoe factory, a civil servant and in advertising. In the 1960s she opted out of conventional work and joined her partner in running a Norfolk village store and post office, where she began writing fiction in her spare time. Her first books, written as Hester Rowan, were three romantic novels; she then took to crime, and wrote 10 crime novels as Sheila Radley.