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I love this cover!❤️❤️I thought this story was wonderful. I wish I could give it 6 stars! The writing was excellent and I’ve just added this author to my favorites list.
I don’t know how to explain this great novel without giving anything away. I loved and hated characters and I don’t know if I’m describing this right, but it held sort of a mystery for me. “Meaning” I could never figure out where the story was leading. It was so good! {{SIGH}}
I highly recommend this one.

What I loved:
• The Writing
• The way the story was told
• The Romance
• The time period
• Clean Romance
• HEA

This was a NETGALLEY gift and all opinions are my own and I’ve my honest review.

Historical fiction at its best as it brought all the characters to life. Thank you publisher and netgalley for this arc in exchange of an honest review.

A wonderful novel set in England in 1704. Elen Griffiths is young woman living on the family farm with her father and siblings, life is hard being a dairy maid but Elen is well educated and loves reading her books by the fireside of the evening.
Until one night there is a knock on the door demanding that she is to go to Duntisbourne Hall to attend and nurse Viscount Mordiford, the Viscount has been infected by smallpox and as she is immune from the disease she has no choice but to attend.
Whilst there she meets Ned Harley the valet and is soon impressed by him.
Even though the Viscount can be cruel at times Elen has grown very fond of him but things take a dangerous turn and the Viscount saves Elen from certain shame.
Elen has to flee the country to save her life and finds herself with the English army to cross the channel to France and serves as a nurse to the Duke of Marlborough.
This novel is breathtaking beautiful and the characters all come to life.

I really enjoyed this book with a factual account of the Battle of Blenheim 1704 coupled with the medical history of the time and an unlikely romance woven in - delightful

That this book is set in the eighteenth century makes me a bit biased...I love anything set in the eighteenth century, and, as a bonus, we find a commoner of sorts nursing an afflicted Viscount. That formula is always a good one for a suspenseful relationship...whatever the outcome (and I will not spoil it). The development of the story was lovely. I quite enjoyed that this book in rooted in truth, and I have always been intrigued by the Battle of Blenheim. I this the writing is stellar, and I would highly recommend this book! Thank you!

I rarely stray into historical fiction but this is an absolute blinder!
All the way through the story it feels as if not much is happening but nevertheless it is an absorbing read and when you reach the end you realise just how much information, action and characterisation was packed into every page...it just sneaks up on you!

Overall a tale of love we meet Elen and Mordiford as she nurses him back from smallpox and is drawn into the world of the rich landowner, debauchery and excess. The story follows Elen through some major challenges and across the sea to war as she develops her nursing skills through necessity rather than desire.

Each character was beautifully described and the situations drew me in as a reader with little knowledge of the period the story covers. Small details made the history come to life (war as a spectator sport being one such detail).
Overall a great setting and a good story with just enough fact to balance the fiction but not bog the reader down in unnecessary detail.

I was delighted to be given the opportunity to read this book by LP Ferguson and review it. I very quickly became absorbed in this historic tale of a farmer's daughter, Elen, who was forced to nurse a Viscount suffering from the pox. Due to an attraction to a member of the Viscount's staff who had an ulterior motive behind his attentions to Elen, she was forced to flee as a nursing assistant to the Viscount’s doctor. She finds herself on the battlefields of the French and English war of 1704 and is witness to some of the medical practices of that time.

This is a novel based on fact, with a lot of romantic twists and turns. A great story with much detail about the medical practices of the time and a book that I thoroughly enjoyed and would recommend.

This could have been a book that I loved but it was just a little bit of a letdown for me. It’s a time period that I like, but I think the writing style just didn’t work for me, it seemed to move the plot forward slowly. The actual plot was promising, it just overall didn’t work for me, maybe because some the characters weren’t particularly dynamic. That being said, I truly did like the look at a time period and historical events that often get overlooked.

As this was not the normal.genre of book that I read I was pleasantly surprised by how easily I became absorbed in this historic tale. When Viscount Mordiford is struck down with The Pox, local farmer's daughter Elen is known to be immune so is forced into nursing him. She quickly becomes attracted to one of the staff, Ned Harley, not realising he has a dark motive behind his attentions. When the truth outs she is convinced to flee with the Doctor as his nursing assistant to the troops on the battlefield where we learn the gory details of the fie!d surgeon as they deal.with the horrific injuries suffered by the soldiers. Once again Elen encounters the Viscount and Ned and what ensues seals the future of our heroine.
Such a well written historical romance that was a pleasure to read and review.

The Summer Fields, what a treat. Beautifully crafted and historically informative on such things as Cowpox , Smallpox, the French disease also known as the Great Pretender and the efficacy of ergotamine. We get an understanding of the campaign of John Churchill and the Battle of Blenheim, battlefield surgery too. Surprisingly, cobweb dressings weren’t mentioned. We also have to frequent our dictionaries to clarify the meaning of archaic words such as crewel and swiving.

There are some lovely descriptions I must share, ‘the mist sucks up the smell of winter vegetation, rotting and black around the edge of the water’. Anyone who has spent a few winters in the countryside will recollect the smell a second after reading that. This little snippet too, ‘You look as miserable as a wet bee’. Absolutely spot on and I can never pass a forlorn wet bee without picking it up and placing it somewhere dry, usually with a tiny spoonful of sugar water to give it energy.

A commendable research project by LP Ferguson resulting in an excellent novel.

I found this book extremely hard to get into. The writing, for me, was very simplistic and did not flow well at all. I had to speak badly about a book, but I was just not able to get into the flow of the characters.

I am not going to post a review on goodreads since I did not entirely finish the book. I hope it was just my taste and that other readers love it.

Thank you for the opportunity to read it for review. I hope to be able to read more of your selections in the future.

This novel was set in and around the Battle of Blenheim and the author used Blenheim Palace as her inspiration. Much of the story is based on true act apparently so this caught my interest from the start. A battle I hadn’t read about before and a story woven from fact and fiction…

I wasn’t disappointed. Elen, a farmer’s daughter starts nursing the Viscount of Duntisbourne Hall . She falls into the clutches of a bad lad however and so flees to work as a nurse for a Lord. This Lord is none other than the Duke of Malborough who is working on a campaign into the heart of France (the Battle of Blenheim) What follows is not just a story of war, but the behind the scenes of one. The novel focuses on the nurses, the work of those not on the front line and this for me, is where things get very interesting. We never really read about such people in history books so when a novel partly brings their stories to life, it’s very insightful.

I’m not the best one to deal with blood and there’s a few descriptions of bloody procedures that might cause a squirm or two! Happily, there’s time for some romance and this makes the novel into a lovely story about hope where you think none is possible.

The writing draws you in and immerses you in a time and place which luckily we have no experience of today. A battle fought many years ago. What the novel allows to linger however, is the human angle, the people who nursed the soldiers and those on the front line. IT reminded me a bit of the TV drama The Crimson Fields and I would like to see this one the small screen!

This is a great historical novel based on fact. It showed the lives and differences in life between titled and regular people. It is about the French and English battle of 1704, and the medical practices in the aftermath. It is a wonderful story with that as a background. It also contains a great romance with lots of twists and turns. I was especially pleased with the author's notes at the end of the book. Do not pass those by, as they dealt with a further intelligence about medical treatment in the early eighteenth century. I recommend this book highly.

Thanks Netgalley and the PPublisher. I do not read this genre as a rule of thumb but so glad that I did. The descriptions and the storyline were great. Would recommend

A new author for me but I will certainly be looking out for new releases. My go-to genre is crime thrillers so a bit different from normal for me. When I first started to read the book which is set in England in the 16th century, I thought I don't think this is going to be for me. I'm so glad I persevered with it, I absolutely loved it. The description of the times and the people had me enthralled, it is so much more than just a love story and you will have to read the book to find out if there's a happy ending.

Having read A Dangerous Act of Kindness and loved it I was looking forward to reading The Summer Fields and I wasn't disappointed .What a fabulous book set in the 1700's it tells the story of Elen, a farmer's daughter who finds herself acting as a nurse to Viscount Mordiford at Duntisbourne Hall who has small pox .It is difficult for Elen who knows no one until she is taken under the wing of Ned Harley a valet who eventually betrays her, she flees and serves as a nurse for the Duke of Marlborough's campaign into France .The story is so well written I felt I was there, it as very atmospheric also ,I loved the characters who seemed very real .This era must have been very hard to be a nurse in as after battle if a soldier was injured the only way to save his life was to amputate the damaged limb thank goodness things have progressed since then .This is essentially a love story beautifully written and very enjoyable .I can't wait to read L.P. Fergussons's next book .
Many thanks to the Publisher the Author and Net Galley for my review copy in return for an honest review .