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Book Synopsis''This is one of the most touching, gripping and inspiring books that I have ever read. Hislop seamlessly weaves an accurate history of a Greek island with a forbidden love story'' Real Reader Review, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
INSPIRED BY TRUTH, THE STORY THAT HAS CAPTIVATED THE WORLD.
This was not the start of a short trip to deliver supplies. It was the beginning of a one-way journey to start a new life. Life on a leper colony. Life on Spinalonga.
Fifty years later, making a life-changing journey of her own, Alexis Fielding feels the pull of the abandoned island. A distant shadow off the coast of Crete, she knows it holds the secrets of her mother''s past, buried for so long but surely not forgotten . . .
Discover for yourself why 10 million readers and critics worldwide love Victoria Hislop''s books . . .
''Passionately engaged with its subject . . . meticulously researched'
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A moving and absorbing holiday read that pulls at the heart strings * Evening Standard *
Passionately engaged with its subject * The Sunday Times *
This is a vivid, moving and absorbing tale, with its sensitive, realistic engagement with all the consequences of, and stigma attached to leprosy, elevating it beyond holiday literature * Observer *
Hislop carefully evokes the lives of Cretans between the wars and during German occupation, but most commendable is her compassionate portrayal of the outcasts * Guardian *
The story of life on Spinalonga, the lepers' island, is gripping and carries real emotional impact. Victoria Hislop . . . brings dignity and tenderness to her novel about lives blighted by leprosy * Telegraph *
A page-turning tale that reminds us that love and life continue in even the most extraordinary of circumstances * Sunday Express *
War, tragedy and passion unfurl against a Mediterranean backdrop in this engrossing debut novel * You magazine *
Wonderful descriptions, strong characters and an intimate portrait of island existence * Woman & Home *
A moving and atmospheric tale * The Scotsman *
A compelling story that has rarely left the bestseller list this year and deservedly so * Sunday Express *
