a real page turner , would highly recommend this read, this author makes you believe you are there at the time, place of the story

Not something I'd usually go for, however the synopsis intrigued me. Good story, nice plot, great characters.

I very much enjoyed this book. It has a good story and excellent main characters. I would definately recommend this book.

Quite a powerful saga full of tragedy and such sadness.

Ellen Quainton has been raised in the Methodist faith in the Oxfordshire countryside. Her life is set in stone and she is to marry Charlie from the local village. But when he is tragically killed. She goes inside herself and won't entertain any notion of walking out with another man let alone marry one. That is until she meets Sam a Gypsy from a local camp. He is not the kind of man she has met before and she is intrigued by him and his way of life.
A really good story that will enchant and sadden the reader.

Thank you, NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book

It’s 1917. In Oxfordshire’s Chiltern Hills beautiful young Ellen Quainton has been brought up in the austere Primitive Methodist faith. Grieving for a fiancé lost on the Western Front, she is wooed by Sam Loveridge, one of a group of gypsies helping to bring in the harvest. Sam has an ill-tempered wife who has failed to give him any children.

Ellen recklessly surrenders to seduction by the handsome gypsy. Romany culture is as hide-bound as the “Prims” and Sam is forced to serve jail-time for another man’s crime. In prison he is brutally flogged, but then befriends a parson who teaches him to read and write. Meanwhile, in the Chilterns, an elderly widower rescues Ellen from the shame of pregnancy, but her heart has been lost to Sam, who knows he will look for her after his release.

Passion and tragedy are combined by Katie Hutton into a rich powerful saga. The author is a writer of substance: this fateful love affair brings echoes of Thomas Hardy’s JUDE THE OBSCURE and D.H. Lawrence’s THE RAINBOW. THE GYPSY BRIDE has a fine pedigree; romance readers will find it deeply absorbing. And a sequel is promised next year!

I am very sorry but i couldn't enjoy this book as the years kept flicking and confused me to the point where i had to put this book down.I am sure others will love this book but it's not for me.

The book is set in chingestone Oxfordshire in the year 1917 the story of Ellen. I couldn't really get into this book as the years keep jumping and the characters made it a bit confusing thenI kept having to put it down. Sorry it not a book i could carry on reading and found it hard going and a bit boring.

I dont know why but this reminded me of Outlander. Even today things have not changed for anyone who gets involved with a gypsy.. love how the two world combine as one.