Duncan Falconer is a former SBS operative turned thriller writer. General Non-Fiction
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The story of one of the most beautiful places on earth – A timeless world of vine, olive and sea.In the early 1960s Emma Tennant’s parents, on a cruise off Corfu, spotted a magical bay and decided to build a house there. This is the story of that house, Rovinia, set in 42 hectares of land above the bay where, legend has it, Ulysses was shipwrecked and found by Nausicaa, daughter of King Alcinous. It is also the story of the people who have lived at Rovinia – Maria, a miraculous cook and the presiding spirit of the house, and her husband, Thodorus – and of the inhabitants of the local village, high on the hill above the bay.
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