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Original Title:	The Island
ISBN:	0755309510 (ISBN13: 9780755309511)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Alexis Fielding, Sofia Fielding
Setting:	Greece,1939
Literary Awards:	Galaxy British Book Awards

The Island

Victoria Hislop

Paperback | Pages: 473 pages

Rating: 4.03 | 35286 Users | 2517 Reviews

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Title	:	The Island
Author	:	Victoria Hislop
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 473 pages
Published	:	April 10th 2006 by Headline (first published 2005)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Greece

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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...

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Leprosy. You think of is as a biblical or medieval disease but I had not realised that even a control/cure wasn't found until the mid 20th century. This involving story is set on the island Spinalonga off the coast of Crete, between the two world wars, where there was a leper colony until leprosy was eradicated by medical intervention.The author weaves the fictional story of Cretan family personally affected by leprosy, into the island's leper colony history. It is absorbing and moving and I was

I always wanted to go to Greece in literature and now I have. Let me tell you, it was worth the trip in this story too. This book is like getting postcards from all the places you have never been to and now don't want to. For Home is gone and it is now in every one of those places you will never visit.Highly recommended.

"You must pay the rent!" the evil villain roared, twirling his diabolical mustache. He was her landlord, and he was an impatient man."But I can't pay the rent!" swooned the beautiful, hapless heroine. She was his tenant. Her breathtaking beauty was matched only by her saintliness. She was always being taken advantage of by the wicked people around her, yet she was committed to remaining good."You must pay the rent!""But I can't pay the rent!""I'll pay the rent!" shouted the mysterious stranger.

As readers we all have our comfort zones and historical fiction is definitely not one of my mine, obviously bar a few exceptions. Although I was a bit wary of The Island at first, eventually it did begin to grow on me. Saying that there are flaws but Ill go into that later.Its 2001 and Alexis is visiting Greece, although her main objective is to visit her mothers birthplace in Plaka. There she meets an old friend who knows Alexis family history well tells her the story about her familys origins,

I enjoyed the book - partly because the island that the story centers on was the view from our terrace during our honeymoon but also because of the unique topic of the story. It was a quick and enjoyable read though I think was weak in a few ways. As with many novels that combine the past and the present with the past being the focus, the scenes in the present were not as well written and lacked depth and development. I thought Alexis' struggle over her relationship with Ed was totally

21/1 - I think this book desperately wanted to be a non-fiction history book, but maybe Hislop was unable to find any stories from real residents of Spinalonga so was forced to write it with fictional ones. I was very interested in the story of the inhabitants of the island, the treatments used for leprosy before the cure was found, and what the eventual cure was, but Hislop's writing created a huge distance between me and all of her characters. My experience reading this reminded me of reading

I had great hopes that this would be a good book.But life can be disappointing at times. This was one of the worst written books I have read in a long time. Chunks of unnecessarty exposition, character motivations eplained to the nth degree, dialogue avoided like...well, like it was leprosy.If you like your characters spoon fed to you, and every meaningful scene ducked (I mean, why didn't we get to see the last evening she and her husband had together? What exactly did they say?), well, this is