Author Talk: Robin Clifford Wood presents The Field House

Born of illustrious New England stock, Rachel Field was an award-winning writer in the early twentieth century. Her light was abruptly extinguished at the age of forty-seven, when she died at the pinnacle of her personal happiness and professional acclaim. Fifty years later, author Robin Clifford Wood stepped onto the sagging floorboards of Rachel’s long-neglected home on the rugged shores of an island in Maine and began dredging up Rachel’s history.

The Field House is a book about beauty—beauty in Maine island landscapes, in friendship, love, and heartbreak; beauty hidden beneath a woman’s woefully unbeautiful exterior; beauty in a rare, delightful spirit that still whispers from the past. 

Robin Clifford Wood is a columnist, biographer, memoirist, poet, blogger, and teacher. 

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