num_pages: 473
description: 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...
language: English
title: The Island
titlecomplete: The Island
characters: Sofia Fielding, Alexis Fielding
genres: Fiction, Historical, Greece, Book Club, Drama, Romance, Chick Lit, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 50343
places: Greece
series: The Island
awards: name: Galaxy British Book Awards
publisher: Headline