A COUNTRY MARRIAGE
Book ID/图书代码： 07470817C00023
English Summary/英文概要： Old country customs die hard in rural Hampshire and marriages are, more often than not, arrangements of convenience rather than love.
When 17 year old Mary Springer marries into the Strong family, she barely knows her new husband George, or what to expect from married life. However, it doesn’t take long before she realises that it is not going to match up to her girlish, fairytale dreams. Instead, it seems to only bring her hard work, a husband who takes little notice of her and an openly hostile sister-in-law.
Mary is further troubled by George’s increasing affinity with a group of violent protestors known as The Radicals. As agricultural labourers, their livelihoods are threatened daily by farmers adopting new, innovative machinery, and they will stop at nothing to protect their traditional way of life.
Machines are destroyed and the countryside is soon ablaze with torched haystacks. Mary suspects George is involved and fears the consequences, but she’s powerless to do anything. When George’s father takes on a new farm-worker – the very handsome and equally charming Francis Troke – Mary suddenly understands what it is to be truly desired and at last happiness beckons. But the activities of The Radicals threaten to destroy this glimmer of hope.
So just how far will Mary go in the name of love?
Set against the backdrop of agricultural unrest, A Country Marriage is a compelling country saga of forbidden love and betrayal.
Sandra Jane Goddard grew up in the Hampshire countryside, where this novel is set. After a career in project management she travelled the world, building homes in a Spanish almond grove and then on the edge of a Malaysian rainforest. Researching her family history inspired her to turn some of it into fiction, which she did with the aid of mentoring from the Writers’ Workshop. She now lives in Devon.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在汉普郡，古老的乡村习俗很难处理，婚姻往往是便利而不是爱情的安排。
当17岁的玛丽•斯普林格嫁给这个强大的家庭时，她几乎不认识她的新丈夫乔治，也不知道婚后生活会有什么期望。然而，不久之后，她才意识到，这并不符合她那少女般的童话般的梦想。相反，这似乎只带来了她的辛勤工作，一个没有注意到她的丈夫和一个公开敌对的姊妹法律。
玛丽还担心乔治与一群被称为激进分子的暴力抗议者的关系越来越密切。作为农业劳动者，农民每天都在威胁着他们的生计，他们采用新的、创新的机器，他们将不惜一切代价保护他们的传统生活方式。
机器被摧毁，乡村很快就被烧成了haystacks。玛丽怀疑乔治参与其中，并担心后果，但她无能为力。当乔治的父亲接受一位新的农场工人-英俊而又迷人的弗朗西斯•Troke(弗朗西斯)-玛丽突然明白了什么才是真正的希望，最后幸福也在召唤着。但是，激进分子的活动威胁着摧毁这一线希望。
那么玛丽要以爱的名义走多远呢？
在农业动荡的背景下，一场乡村婚姻是一场令人难以理解的禁止爱情和背叛的故事。
桑德拉•简•戈达德在汉普郡的乡村长大，在那里这本小说是在那里设置的。在项目管理职业生涯之后，她周游了世界，在西班牙的杏仁园建造了房子，然后在马来西亚雨林的边缘。研究她的家族史启发了她把一些小说变成小说，她在作家工作坊的指导下完成了这一工作。她现在住在德文郡。（WYL）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 桑德拉•简•戈达德是一位历史传奇作家。她从事项目管理，然后周游世界，在西班牙的杏仁园和马来西亚雨林的边缘建造住宅。研究她的家庭历史激发了她对前几个世纪普通妇女生活的迷恋。她现在住在德文郡
Sandra Jane Goddard is an author of historical sagas. She had a career in project management and then travelled the world, building homes in a Spanish almond grove and on the edge of a Malaysian rainforest. Researching her family history inspired her fascination with the lives of ordinary women in earlier centuries. She now lives in Devon.
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