The Island by Victoria Hislop - A Greek Island Novel with a difference and certainly a relevance to local issues and events from the twentieth century. This is the story of a young woman charting her Cretan mother's hidden past. Set against the backdrop of the Second World War and the Island of Spinalonga the book deals with issues as complex as humanity in the face of a widely misunderstood disease, the traditional love story, the German occupation of Crete and a family's turbulent history. Read the SpinalongaIsland.info review of Victoria Hislop's 'The Island'

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Thanks to M for pointing this title out (Summer 2005)