
In the town of Monkshaven during the Napoleonic Wars, Sylvia's beloved, Charley, is pressed onto a whaling ship and then reported dead, and when Sylvia marries her cousin, Philip, she finds that Philip has been guilty of betrayal.
- Pages
- 484
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140434224
