There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.

According to Ruth Hill Viguers Field was "fifteen when Rachel Field first visited Maine and fell under the spell of its 'island-scattered coast'. Nicholas Magazine. Field also won a National Book Award Newbery Honor award and two of her books are on the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list.

Field also won a National Book Award Newbery Honor award and two of her books are on the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list. She is best known for the Newbery Award-winning Hitty Her First Hundred Years.