The island
Victoria Hislop (Author)
Alexis Fielding longs to find out about her mother's past. But Sofia has never spoken of it, just stating that she grew up in a small Cretan village before moving to London. When Alexis decides to visit Crete, Sofia gives her daughter a letter of introduction to a friend who will be able to fill in details. Alexis is astonished that the village of Plaka is a stone's throw from Spinalonga, Greece's former leper colony. Through the friend of her mother's Alexis at last hears her mother's story - a story of her great-grandmother Eleni and her daughters, and a family rent by tragedy, war and passion ..
Print Book, English, 2006
Headline Review, London, 2006