Duncan Falconer is a former SBS operative turned thriller writer. Travel
Synopsis
“This charming idyll depicts the country life and cosmopolitan society of Corfu in the years immediately before the war… The matter of it is as sound as the story is delightful.”
Sunday Times
“Corfu, that Ionian island whose idyllic yet blood-stained history goes back the best part of a thousand years, could not have found a fitter chronicler than Mr Durrell. For he is a poet, with all a poet’s sensibility, and a humanist to boot, with a keen eye for character and a scholar’s reverence for antiquity.”
Daily Telegraph
A guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corfu
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