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The Island By Victoria Hislop (Paperback, 2006)

The Island is the million-copy No1 bestseller and winner of Richard & Judy's Summer Read 2006 from Victoria Hislop From the thirties to the present day it is a tale of four generations rent by war illicit love violence and leprosy A beautiful 10th anniversary paperback edition that includes a new essay by Victoria Hislop on the impact of this million-copy bestsellerThis 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 SpinalongaFifty 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 to her mother's past buried for so long but surely not forgotten Acclaim for The
Island'Passionately engaged with its subject meticulously researched' The Sunday Times'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'Vivid moving and absorbing' Observer
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The Island is the million-copy No 1 bestseller & winner of Richard & Judy's Summer Read 2006 from Victoria Hislop From the thirties to the present day it is a tale of four generations rent by war illicit love violence & leprosy A beautiful 10th anniversary paperback edition that

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a new essay by Victoria Hislop on the impact of this million-copy bestseller 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 to her mother's past buried for so long but surely not forgotten Acclaim for The Island' Passionately engaged with its subject meticulously researched' The Sunday Times' Hislop carefully evokes the lives of Cretans between the wars & during German occupation but most commendable is her compassionate portrayal of the outcasts' Guardian' Vivid moving & absorbing' Observer

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