One Easter a young actor, far from home, rents a house from a writer he`s never heard of called Kester Berwick, & becomes fascinated by the absent Berwick`s rootless, self-invented existence. Gradually, he finds his own life strangely echoing the absent writer`s, as Corfu`s eccentric expatriate community opens up to him. But is travelling a search or an escape? Is stillness stultifying or liberating? & where do love, sex & friendship fit? CORFU is also a meditation on literary landscapes, from Homer & Sappho to Chekhov & C.P. Cavafy. Dessaix is alive to Corfu`s ghosts
- Odysseus, washed up naked on the shore to be found by the princess Nausicca; Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, who, hopelessly adrift on dreams of Homer, built a palace called Achilleon; & Berwick himself, the absent centre where all these stories meet.