The potter's house
By: Rosie Thomas
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780007563227
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Fiction; English fiction; Married women; Adultery; Female friendship
Description: Olivia Giorgiadis has left her English roots behind. She lives on a tiny Greek island, married to a local man, mother to two small sons. Year on year, island life has followed a peaceful unchanging rhythm. Until now. An earthquake ravages the coast, its force devastating the island. In the aftermath comes a stranger: an Englishwoman, destitute but for the clothes she wears. Olivia welcomes the stranger into her home, the potter's house. But as Kitty melts into the family and the village community, so Olivia begins to sense that her mysterious visitor threatens all she holds dear ...