Sylvias Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell Paperback Book 9780140434224

Set in 1790 in Monkshaven where pressgangs wreak havoc by seizing young men for service in the Napoleonic wars One of their victims is Charley Kinraid who captured the heart of Sylvia Robson But Sylvias cousin Philip Hepburn hopes to marry her himself and in order to win her withholds crucial information with devastating consequences