359 pages
English language
Published April 13, 1997 by Penguin Books.
3 stars
(1 review)
Set against a backdrop of the Napoleonic wars, this is a novel about a young woman and the three very different suitors who vie for her hand. Two of the men are brothers involved in the fighting, one an easygoing sailor, the other an honest and diffident trumpet major, the third suitor being the cowardly son of the local squire.
Subjects
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Veterans -- Fiction
- Soldiers -- Fiction
- Brothers -- Fiction
- Wessex (England) -- Fiction