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Book Review of Gentian Hill

Gentian Hill
Gentian Hill
Author: Elizabeth Goudge
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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It takes place in Cornwall, and on to France, to see the destruction in the wake of the French Revolution .

The plot is the love story of Stella Sprigg, adopted daughter of the farming family of Spriggs and Midshipman Anthony OConnell, 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 murderous seas of war in the Mediterranean, to the prisons and poverty of 18th centaury Lond