โ Scribed by Tillyard, Stella
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Spanning several decades in seventeenth century Great Britain and America, this "impressive piece of work, rich in historical detail and human insight" (The Sunday Times) is an unforgettable love story exploring the power of nature versus man and man versus woman.
I am an engineer and a measured man of the world. I prefer to weigh everything in the balance, to calculate and to plan. Yet my own heart is going faster than I can now count.
In 1649, Jan Brunt arrives in Great Britain from the Netherlands to work on draining and developing an expanse of marshy wetlands known as the Great Level. It is here in this wild country that he meets Eliza, a local woman whose love overturns his ordered vision. Determined to help her strive beyond her situation, Jan is heedless of her devotion to her home and way of life. When she uses the education Jan has given her to sabotage his work, Eliza is brutally punished, and Jan flees to the New World.
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