On his nineteenth birthday in June 1747, the narrator is made mate of the ship Lady of Lynn in the Lisbon trade. Ashore, the little port’s society gathers round a spa, a grand lady and a newly discovered heiress, and the young sailor watches with growing alarm as fortune hunters and conspirators close in on the young heiress.
A warm Georgian romance from Besant, full of the sea-trade and small-town society of Norfolk. Download the free EPUB.