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LAVENDER FIELDS
A YOUNG GIRL'S JOURNEY THROUGH LOVE AND LIFE.
Emma Pagett is raised in the slums and rookeries of Victorian Seven Dials by violent and abusive parents. She finds the courage to leave them and starts to live was larger-than-life character and costermonger Charlie Bateman. He introduces her to a life of sexual fulfilment and pleasure, but he is also controlling, violent and jealous.
Emma finds herself in the lush lavender fields of Mitcham, then in rural Surrey, but now part of the urban sprawl of Greater London. She finds work cutting lavender and embarks on another disfunctional relationship, but escaping from that, she gets caught up in the world of the travelling fairground folk, and is eventually duped into prostitution.
She spends a hellish stint in a workhouse in Bedford, before escaping back to Mitcham to face the life she had previously left behind, and which she hopes to make amends.
Emma is a Tess-like figure who is used and abused by all of the men in her life, but unlike Tess, she is no 'pure woman', and throughly enjoys all of her sexual advetures.
Emma Pagett is raised in the slums and rookeries of Victorian Seven Dials by violent and abusive parents. She finds the courage to leave them and starts to live was larger-than-life character and costermonger Charlie Bateman. He introduces her to a life of sexual fulfilment and pleasure, but he is also controlling, violent and jealous.
Emma finds herself in the lush lavender fields of Mitcham, then in rural Surrey, but now part of the urban sprawl of Greater London. She finds work cutting lavender and embarks on another disfunctional relationship, but escaping from that, she gets caught up in the world of the travelling fairground folk, and is eventually duped into prostitution.
She spends a hellish stint in a workhouse in Bedford, before escaping back to Mitcham to face the life she had previously left behind, and which she hopes to make amends.
Emma is a Tess-like figure who is used and abused by all of the men in her life, but unlike Tess, she is no 'pure woman', and throughly enjoys all of her sexual advetures.
644 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 4, 2022
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January 1, 2024
Lavender Fields
Couldn't stop reading. So engrossed with the story. But I have to say that I hate Emma. It's always the beautiful girls/women that get away and forgiven for everything. Sure ,she had hard times ,but she brought it on herself. She only ever thought about herself and what she wanted. She never cared that she was hurting someone else as long as she got what made her happy.I'm surprised she was blonde ,usuàlly it's the blondes that use people. Yes,I'm one of the not beautiful ones.
Couldn't stop reading. So engrossed with the story. But I have to say that I hate Emma. It's always the beautiful girls/women that get away and forgiven for everything. Sure ,she had hard times ,but she brought it on herself. She only ever thought about herself and what she wanted. She never cared that she was hurting someone else as long as she got what made her happy.I'm surprised she was blonde ,usuàlly it's the blondes that use people. Yes,I'm one of the not beautiful ones.
November 17, 2022
Hard to.put down
Loved the characters -finely drawn and so very real.
The market scenes were quite believable with actual place names that still exist
Loved the characters -finely drawn and so very real.
The market scenes were quite believable with actual place names that still exist
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