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A House in Corfu: A Family's Sojourn in Greece
A House in Corfu A Family's Sojourn in Greece
Author: Emma Tennant
The story of an unspoiled island and an English family making a home by the Aegean Sea. — In the early 1960s Emma Tennant's parents, on a cruise, spotted a magical bay and decided to build a house there. — This book is the story of that house, Rovinia, set above the bay in Corfu where legend has it Ulysses was shipwrecked and found by Nausicaa, da...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780805068979
ISBN-10: 080506897X
Publication Date: 2/1/2002
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
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What a lovely story. This is the true story about the lives of this author and her family while living on a beautiful bay on the west coast of Corfu, Greece. Women did the heavy lifting, the architect was local and the house of the Tennant's was transformed into a structure of pure art.

The author has a magical way with words that kept me turning the pages. A slab of local bread spread with honey so rich and gold the bees must have swarmed from Mount Olympus. And breakfast was figs picked behind the house" painted a picture of life quite serene. But this author also gives us the ugly. The past with the second world war.

Although this story is beautiful. I think what I enjoyed above all else is the way this author has with her soft mesmerizing flow of words. I will search for more from Ms. Tennant for I really did enjoy her offerings to her readers.


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