Summary
The perfect holiday read: four visitors discover a new lease of life and reawaken old loves on a mysterious Greek island.
Kate is bored of being overlooked by her grown-up children and decides to escape on an Aegean cruise. She ends up in Keritha - a mysterious Greek island all but forgotten by the modern world. There she encounters her childhood friends, the Challoners, returned to the island of their birth to claim their heritage. When another stray arrives: the unattractive, foolis…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099595496 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099595494 |
| Author: | Margaret Kennedy |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2014 |
| Weight: | 248g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
She is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed
An imaginative tale, symbolic and haunting and yet at times wryly humorous * Kirkus Reviews *
Margaret Kennedy caught just the taste of the time, mixing a stolid domestic Englishness with ‘Continental’ bohemians * Irish Times *
She is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed – Anita Brookner
Kennedy was immensely popular in her heyday * Washington Post *
Margaret Kennedy
Margaret Kennedy was born in London in 1896 and read History at Somerville College, Oxford in 1915 (alongside Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain) where she began writing. In 1924, Kennedy’s second novel The Constant Nymph became a worldwide bestseller which she adapted into a hit West End play starring Noel Coward (three different star-studded film versions followed). Described as ‘superb’ by Elizabeth Bowen, Kennedy wrote fifteen further prize-winning novels including The Feast in 1950, as well as literary criticism and a biography of Jane Austen. She died in 1967.
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