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Sylvia’s Lovers

Auteur(s): Elizabeth Gaskell
Narrateur(s): Clare Wille
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Interconnecting the historical and the personal, the public and the private, this is a moving, absorbing story that probes the imbalance of human relationships, whether it be in the press gangs forcing young men to fight or the feelings of one individual for another. Life in an English seaside town in the 1790s is harsh, and ‘captious, capricious’ Sylvia has a dilemma when the dashing harpooner to whom she is secretly engaged disappears, and her dull cousin Philip (who has more information about his rival than he lets on) offers her love and security. Philip is not the only one afflicted with unrequited feelings, and as the ‘ceaseless waves’ lap against the shore we are drawn right into the heart of personal choices and their motivation. Alongside the accuracy of its historical backdrop, this is a character-driven novel, and Gaskell’s characters shine as brightly here as in North and South.

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I am unsure as to whether I liked this book or not. It’s heavy. I recommend listening to it when you can take a day or two afterward to rock back and forth while gazing into the abyss, questioning the point of it all. This is where I’m not sure if I liked it; the book did not give me pleasure but it did make me feel something. Is that not the mark of excellent literature? The ability to make us feel? It certainly does that.

Mrs. Gaskell has a gift of showing us the profound depth of our own weaknesses and strengths through her characters. They think just as we do and we can imagine ourselves making the same questionable choices and then finding ourselves caught up in something we can never get out of.

Sylvia is a beautiful, admired young lady who starts out as frivolous and vain. She lets go of these qualities the further she goes along through her life, but she is obstinate and not always able to see or admit that she’s done wrong (much like her father). Sometimes she is barely tolerable.

At the end we might think, “isn’t there more?” But the book, like life, doesn’t necessarily give us everything we thought we wanted.

If you appreciate strong, insightful writing, I recommend Sylvia’s Lovers.

Not for the faint of heart

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