The Field That Held Us
A Time-Slip Novel of the Early Enclosures

About this book:

When Ruth Hollings's tractor strikes a boundary stone in her Oxfordshire field, the world fractures. One moment she's a thirty-four-year-old farmer fighting developers for her last nine acres; the next, she's standing in 1623, face-to-face with Elizabeth Hollings—her ancestor, a widow armed with a billhook and a fury to match her own, tearing down enclosure stakes before the bailiff's men can drive them home.

Three centuries separate them, but the enemy wears the same face: power grabbing land from those who work it. In 1623, Sir John's surveyors chain off the common; in 2024, a logistics firm offers three hundred thousand pounds for an access road. As Ruth fights beside Elizabeth through rain-sodden ditches and manor-house conspiracies, she discovers the marker stone she unearthed binds more than a boundary—it holds a thread of resistance that has never snapped.

*The Field That Held Us* is a timeslip novel that refuses nostalgia. It's about the clay under your boots and the price of keeping it. About women who say no when the world demands yes. And about the strange, stubborn hope that the furrows you plough today might still matter four hundred years from now.