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A house in Corfu

Paperback • 2002 • English • 1. edition

A house in Corfu

By Emma Tennant

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About the book

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 in 42 hectares of land above the bay where legend has it Ulysses was shipwrecked. It is also the story of the people who have been at Rovinia since the feast in the grove at the time of putting on the roof - Maria, miraculous cook and the presiding spirit of the house, and her husband Thodoros - and of the inhabitants of the local v...Show more

Travel writing

Book details

ISBN

9780099444923

Publisher

Vintage

Published year

2002

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

A house in Corfu

Format

Paperback

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