Sylvia's Lovers (Hardcover)

from LucindaEl

An intriguing, anti-romantic novel, melodramatic and fascinating. I didn't find either the handsome, dashing but shallow and unreliable Charley Kinraid or the dismal, obsessed Philip Hepburn sympathetic, but I did find poor Sylvia so. Hope to have a review of this in the ezine 'the F word' out so...

from JaneGS

An interesting novel--not as good as Gaskell's North and South or Wives and Daughters, but still an interesting historical novel...i.e., written about press gangs and the whaling industry during the Napoleonic Wars sixty years later.

from PhilSyphe

"Sylvia's Lovers" is a slow-paced, lengthy tome. Had it been half as long I may have liked it twice as much. Lots of time is wasted with overlong and unnecessary descriptions. The opening chapter could've been cut altogether. The descriptive writing itself is very good, as it always is with Mrs G...