About the Book: Sylvias Lovers
An exotic historical narrative of realistic compulsion Set in the isolated
whaling community of Monkshaven during the Napoleonic wars, Sylvias Lovers is a
strange and tragic love story fused with a tale of the press-gangs evil tyranny
over the local people. Left penniless after her fathers death and believing that
her lover Charley Kinraid is dead, Sylvia reluctantly marries her devoted but
deceitful cousin, Philip Hepburn. When Kinraid, now a wartime hero, unexpectedly
returns, the passionate and vulnerable Sylvia breaks under the strain and must
make the fateful choice between her two lovers. Always a keen psychological
observer of human behaviour, Elizabeth