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100	1		_aHislop, Victoria _912853
245	1	4	_aThe island / _cVictoria Hislop.
260			_aLondon : _bHeadline review, _c2006.
300			_a490 p. _c17 cm.
520			_aOn 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 dauhters, 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...
651		0	_aCrete (Greece) _xGenealogy _vFiction _912854
651		0	_aCrete (Greece) _xSocial conditions _vFiction _912855
651		0	_aSpinalonka (Leper colony) _vFiction _912856
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