Gentian Hill Author:Elizabeth Goudge Book is missing the dust jacket. This book is the love story of Stella Sprigg, adopted daughter of the farming family of Spriggs and Midshipman Anthony O’Connell, and takes place during the Napoleonic Wars. The book is written in three parts, The Farm, The Sea and The Chapel, and the action moves from her remote Devonshire valley, to the murder... more »ous seas of war in the Mediterranean, to the prisons and poverty of 18th centaury London« less