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The Island

The million-copy Number One bestseller 'A moving and absorbing holiday read'

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The Island

Yazan: Victoria Hislop
Seslendiren: Emilia Fox
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'A moving and absorbing holiday read that pulls at the heartstrings' Evening Standard

The acclaimed million-copy number one bestseller and winner of Richard & Judy's Summer Read 2006. Victoria Hislop tells a dramatic tale of four generations, illicit love, violence and leprosy, from the thirties, through the war, to the present day.

On the brink of a life-changing decision, Alexis Fielding longs to find out about her mother's past. But Sofia has never spoken of it. All she admits to is growing up in a small Cretan village before moving to London. When Alexis decides to visit Crete, however, Sofia gives her daughter a letter to take to an old friend, and promises that through her she will learn more.

Arriving in Plaka, Alexis is astonished to see that it lies a stone's throw from the tiny, deserted island of Spinalonga - Greece's former leper colony. Then she finds Fotini, and at last hears the story that Sofia has buried all her life: the tale of her great-grandmother Eleni and her daughters and a family rent by tragedy, war and passion.

She discovers how intimately she is connected with the island, and how secrecy holds them all in its powerful grip...

Praise for The Island. . .

'A vivid, moving and absorbing tale'
Observer

'Victoria Hislop . . . brings dignity and tenderness to her novel about lives blighted by leprosy'
Telegraph

'Wonderful descriptions, strong characters and an intimate portrait of island existence'
Woman & Home

'War, tragedy and passion unfurl against a Mediterranean backdrop in this engrossing debut novel'
You magazine

'Hislop's deep research, imagination and patent love of Crete creates a convincing portrait of times on the island'
Evening Standard

'A page-turning tale that reminds us that love and life continue in even the most extraordinary of circumstances'
Sunday Express

'A beautiful tale of enduring love and unthinking prejudice'
Express©2006 Victoria Hislop Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction Kurgu Aşırı duygusal İngiltere Savaş
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I was recommended this book. never read anything similar orby this author but I really enjoyed it. turned in places and went in a direction I hadn't anticipated which made it a great listen.

excellent

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This story transports you to beautiful Greece. Both the characters and the way the story is told keeps your interest throughout.

A deep and interesting story.

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I am really enjoying the story and am nearing the end but on numerous occasions I have felt like quitting and returning the audiobook. The narrator keeps making me jump with her voice for some of the characters, particularly the males. Papa Dimitri sounds like an explosion: loud and angry, and some of the females like Anna have high pitched shrills and sound overly whiny. I keep having to twiddle with the volume as some characters sound really low and soft, and the next moment I'm putting the volume down after the narration has frightened me! In the bright side, at least it wasn't a fake robot voice.

A nicely flowing abridged version

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Interesting makes us want to holiday there and probably will , sad, happy , romantic , intriguing , similar to a book called the Island

Very good

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Loved it and so sorry when it came to an end. I can thoroughly recommend

A great and gripping read

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