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The Land of Maybe
The Land Of Maybe by Sandra Field released on Oct 25, 1991 is available now for purchase.
189 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 1, 1990
About the author
Sandra Field
214 books35 followersJill MacLean was born on 1941 in England, UK. In 1950, her family moved to Nova Scotia, Canada.
After receiving her Bachelor of Science with honours from Dalhousie University, she married. She worked at the Fisheries Research Board until her daughter was born. Following the birth of her son, she was employed by the pathology laboratory of Sydney City Hospital and the biology department of Mount Allison University. More recently, she completed a Masters in Theological Studies at the Atlantic School of Theology; her thesis juxtaposed Hebrew concepts of chaos in the book of Job with modern chaos theory.
When her husband joined the Armed Forces as a chaplain, she had to stop working. They moved three times in the first 18 months, the last move was to Prince Edward Island. By then her children were in school; she couldn't get a job; and at the local bridge club, she kept forgetting not to trump her partner's ace.
However, she had always loved to read, fascinated by the lure of being drawn into the other world of the story. So one day she bought a dozen Harlequin novels, read and analyzed them, then sat down and wrote one. Her first book, To Trust My Love, typed with four fingers, was published in 1974 as Sandra Field (she believes she's curiously the first Canadian to write for Harlequin). During the four years she lived in Prince Edward Island, she researched an 18th century French settlement located near present-day Brudenell, resulting in a historical book, Jean Pierre Roma, published in 1977 under her real name. She also started to write in collaboration with other Martimer writer under the pseudonym Jan MacLean. She also used to singed her novels the pseudonym of Jocelyn Haley. Her pseudonyms was an attempt to prevent the congregation from finding out what the chaplain's wife was up to in her spare time.
Before she turned 40, her life was changed, she had lost three of the most important women in her life: her mother and sister to illness, and her seventeen-year-old daughter to a car accident, and she separated from her husband in 1976. One of the lasting legacies of the grief caused by these losses has been the idea that it is impossible and undesirable to live every waking moment in the knowledge that loss can strike at any time.
She's been very fortunate for years to be able to combine a love of travel (particularly to the north - she doesn't do heat well) with her writing, by describing settings that most people will probably never visit. And there's always the challenge of making the heroine's long underwear sound romantic. Her novels has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Swedish, Yugoslavian, Japanese... and sold in more than 90 countries. Her first collection of poetry, The Brevity of Red, was published in 2003. When her nine-years-old grandson, Stuart, asked him a book for him, she wrote her first Children's book and decided continued writing this type of books.
Jill now lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, and she's lived most of her life in the Maritimes of Canada, within reach of the sea. Kayaking and canoeing, hiking and gardening, listening to music and reading are all sources of great pleasure. But best of all are good friends, some going back to high-school days, and her family. In Newfoundland, she has a beautiful daughter-in-law and the two most delightful, handsome, and intelligent grandchildren in the world (of course!).
After receiving her Bachelor of Science with honours from Dalhousie University, she married. She worked at the Fisheries Research Board until her daughter was born. Following the birth of her son, she was employed by the pathology laboratory of Sydney City Hospital and the biology department of Mount Allison University. More recently, she completed a Masters in Theological Studies at the Atlantic School of Theology; her thesis juxtaposed Hebrew concepts of chaos in the book of Job with modern chaos theory.
When her husband joined the Armed Forces as a chaplain, she had to stop working. They moved three times in the first 18 months, the last move was to Prince Edward Island. By then her children were in school; she couldn't get a job; and at the local bridge club, she kept forgetting not to trump her partner's ace.
However, she had always loved to read, fascinated by the lure of being drawn into the other world of the story. So one day she bought a dozen Harlequin novels, read and analyzed them, then sat down and wrote one. Her first book, To Trust My Love, typed with four fingers, was published in 1974 as Sandra Field (she believes she's curiously the first Canadian to write for Harlequin). During the four years she lived in Prince Edward Island, she researched an 18th century French settlement located near present-day Brudenell, resulting in a historical book, Jean Pierre Roma, published in 1977 under her real name. She also started to write in collaboration with other Martimer writer under the pseudonym Jan MacLean. She also used to singed her novels the pseudonym of Jocelyn Haley. Her pseudonyms was an attempt to prevent the congregation from finding out what the chaplain's wife was up to in her spare time.
Before she turned 40, her life was changed, she had lost three of the most important women in her life: her mother and sister to illness, and her seventeen-year-old daughter to a car accident, and she separated from her husband in 1976. One of the lasting legacies of the grief caused by these losses has been the idea that it is impossible and undesirable to live every waking moment in the knowledge that loss can strike at any time.
She's been very fortunate for years to be able to combine a love of travel (particularly to the north - she doesn't do heat well) with her writing, by describing settings that most people will probably never visit. And there's always the challenge of making the heroine's long underwear sound romantic. Her novels has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Swedish, Yugoslavian, Japanese... and sold in more than 90 countries. Her first collection of poetry, The Brevity of Red, was published in 2003. When her nine-years-old grandson, Stuart, asked him a book for him, she wrote her first Children's book and decided continued writing this type of books.
Jill now lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, and she's lived most of her life in the Maritimes of Canada, within reach of the sea. Kayaking and canoeing, hiking and gardening, listening to music and reading are all sources of great pleasure. But best of all are good friends, some going back to high-school days, and her family. In Newfoundland, she has a beautiful daughter-in-law and the two most delightful, handsome, and intelligent grandchildren in the world (of course!).
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August 16, 2017
RE The Land of Maybe - Sandra Field takes us to the Faroe islands in the North Atlantic where the average temperature is about 50F or 10C and the most amount of sunlight they get is in June at about 5- 6 hours a day. Because of the perpetual gloom, overshadow and mist - the Faroes get a lot of mist because tho they are far north they have the warm Gulf Stream roaming around their islands- they are sometimes called The Land of Maybe, as in maybe they are there or maybe you are just seeing things.
The h is a 22 yr old Faroe native who has been living in Canada for the last three years and absolutely hating it. She went to Canada three years earlier with a wealthy young suitor who promised marriage, but then pumped and dumped her. She has been working two jobs in the hospitality industry to make ends meet and because she works as a hostess at a very elite restaurant, she has to deal with more harassing wealthy men. The h is a beautiful red head and she is tired of having to be polite to rich slime swillers.
So her attitude towards wealthy men is lower that mushroom fertilizer. When her younger sister writes that she has met her own wealthy Canadian and is planning marriage, the h decides to chuck her jobs and rush home to save her. On the plane ride and the subsequent ferry ride back to the Faroes, the h meets a wealthy man who is way into picking her up. She is barely polite, but he is persistent and he really wants to make a lurve club special experience with her. The h is attracted, but she has attitude, so she is not kind and she continues to be not kind for a lot of the story.
Then we find out the h's persistent rich H is the older brother of the baby sis's true love and while the h is hot and eminently lurve clubbable, to the H the baby sis is a tarty gold digger and the H wants to just pay her off. The H makes sure the h knows that, but also he still wants to lurve the h up. Needless to say the h is not delighted.
The other problem the h has is that her father hates her because she looks exactly like her mother and he believes that her mother cheated on him before she died in childbirth.
There is much moping and angst and verbal battles and then the H and h lurve it up after a few days when they visit the h's favorite little misty island. The lil' sis and the brother are obviously devoted and the H is obviously not liking the lil' sis and then the H tells the h he loves her and wants to marry her after five days. The h is very negative alternating with mopey, the lil' sis can't wait to pimp her out and the father finally acknowledges that he was cruel to the h after he finds out her mother never cheated - the guy she supposedly cheated with went to the h's father and explained things at the instigation of the H.
The H, who belongs to a big Canadian Foresting family, is rich, but he quit the family firm to become a logging environmentalist and he has to rush back to Canada to save trees. The h has a mopey/cranky moment until the H returns for the engagement dinner of the brother and lil' sis and then she flings herself upon him, declaring she loves him madly and he loves her back for the HEA.
No one in this book was particularly likable, except for the H's brother, he was okay and the sheeps were interesting and there was a dramatic sheep rescue off a cliff and there are some puffins with their funny little faces. The whole insta-lurve thing was too fast and the h too bitter to be believable.
Really, who falls in love in five days with the man who calls your sister a gold digging tart? The Faroe island location and the travelogue was great, so this one is just kind meh, tho the puffins should have got more page time. But this isn't one to hunt down for a really dramatic or exciting HP outing.
The h is a 22 yr old Faroe native who has been living in Canada for the last three years and absolutely hating it. She went to Canada three years earlier with a wealthy young suitor who promised marriage, but then pumped and dumped her. She has been working two jobs in the hospitality industry to make ends meet and because she works as a hostess at a very elite restaurant, she has to deal with more harassing wealthy men. The h is a beautiful red head and she is tired of having to be polite to rich slime swillers.
So her attitude towards wealthy men is lower that mushroom fertilizer. When her younger sister writes that she has met her own wealthy Canadian and is planning marriage, the h decides to chuck her jobs and rush home to save her. On the plane ride and the subsequent ferry ride back to the Faroes, the h meets a wealthy man who is way into picking her up. She is barely polite, but he is persistent and he really wants to make a lurve club special experience with her. The h is attracted, but she has attitude, so she is not kind and she continues to be not kind for a lot of the story.
Then we find out the h's persistent rich H is the older brother of the baby sis's true love and while the h is hot and eminently lurve clubbable, to the H the baby sis is a tarty gold digger and the H wants to just pay her off. The H makes sure the h knows that, but also he still wants to lurve the h up. Needless to say the h is not delighted.
The other problem the h has is that her father hates her because she looks exactly like her mother and he believes that her mother cheated on him before she died in childbirth.
There is much moping and angst and verbal battles and then the H and h lurve it up after a few days when they visit the h's favorite little misty island. The lil' sis and the brother are obviously devoted and the H is obviously not liking the lil' sis and then the H tells the h he loves her and wants to marry her after five days. The h is very negative alternating with mopey, the lil' sis can't wait to pimp her out and the father finally acknowledges that he was cruel to the h after he finds out her mother never cheated - the guy she supposedly cheated with went to the h's father and explained things at the instigation of the H.
The H, who belongs to a big Canadian Foresting family, is rich, but he quit the family firm to become a logging environmentalist and he has to rush back to Canada to save trees. The h has a mopey/cranky moment until the H returns for the engagement dinner of the brother and lil' sis and then she flings herself upon him, declaring she loves him madly and he loves her back for the HEA.
No one in this book was particularly likable, except for the H's brother, he was okay and the sheeps were interesting and there was a dramatic sheep rescue off a cliff and there are some puffins with their funny little faces. The whole insta-lurve thing was too fast and the h too bitter to be believable.
Really, who falls in love in five days with the man who calls your sister a gold digging tart? The Faroe island location and the travelogue was great, so this one is just kind meh, tho the puffins should have got more page time. But this isn't one to hunt down for a really dramatic or exciting HP outing.
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January 3, 2014
hmmm...maybe 2.5 to 3 stars.
Heroine was too damn annoying and the hero's logic just didn't make sense.
He calls her sister a gold digger and wants to buy her off, but claims the heroine is different so why don't they just jump in the sack together? hmmm. right? Is that the best line ever?
Really, and she is supposed to believe that he has staying power and is in it for the long haul?
Not convinced at all.
Heroine was too damn annoying and the hero's logic just didn't make sense.
He calls her sister a gold digger and wants to buy her off, but claims the heroine is different so why don't they just jump in the sack together? hmmm. right? Is that the best line ever?
Really, and she is supposed to believe that he has staying power and is in it for the long haul?
Not convinced at all.
September 21, 2013
I saw that there are no reviews for this book so here goes: This is an amazing book. Read it asap!
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April 6, 2013
4.5*
December 11, 2013
Rating 3.25 stars
July 20, 2025
"The Land of Maybe" is the story of Marya and Craig.
Heroine is returning home after 3 years in Canada. She had run away with her boyfriend and got disowned by her father.. only to be used and be abandoned by her partner. She struggles to survive and lies to her remaining family about her life.
However, when her sister falls in love with a rich Canadian too, she runs back home to warn her over.
She meets the hero on the journey who is instantly smitten. Lots of banter ensues, until she realizes they share a common goal towards the visit and their will-they-won't-they romance forms the story.
It was OK, I get that she was disillusioned but god it got tiresome after a point. Her backstory and relationship with father felt like a page filler.
Safe
2/5
Heroine is returning home after 3 years in Canada. She had run away with her boyfriend and got disowned by her father.. only to be used and be abandoned by her partner. She struggles to survive and lies to her remaining family about her life.
However, when her sister falls in love with a rich Canadian too, she runs back home to warn her over.
She meets the hero on the journey who is instantly smitten. Lots of banter ensues, until she realizes they share a common goal towards the visit and their will-they-won't-they romance forms the story.
It was OK, I get that she was disillusioned but god it got tiresome after a point. Her backstory and relationship with father felt like a page filler.
Safe
2/5
March 31, 2020
After being dumped by Tony Marya doesn't trust rich men, so when her sister falls for a rich man she heads home to put an end to the romance, but on the ferry she meets Craig Huntingdon a rich man determined to prevent his brother from marrying a gold digger. Too bad he falls for Marya on the ferry over.
February 4, 2024
Marya lived in agony far away from her family (Father and little sisters) for three long years because of her shame. Her experience with Tobby had shuttered more than her precious pride and faith in love and now she wants nothing of man! Therefore, when her sister, Kathrin, wrote to announce her engagement to a man called Rodd and her description of him was exactly like that of Tobby, she was adament to stop her sister from commiting the same painful mistake she did. At the airport and while waiting for her flight, though, she met Craig Huntingdon and from the moment he asked her grudgingly to keep an eye on his bag while he went to a bookstore, nothing went into plan! It seems faith was consistantly throwing him her way! She had to travel with him by plane and ship and eventually even see him in her home island in circumstances that she never would have imagined - all the while fending his attempts to win her heart while his mere nearness made her go in flames!
This book is so wonderful with strong well-drawn characters. I couldn't put it down and it's a pity it finished! Very HIGHLY recommended.
This book is so wonderful with strong well-drawn characters. I couldn't put it down and it's a pity it finished! Very HIGHLY recommended.
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