Alexis Fielding longs to find out about her mother's past. But Sofia has never spoken of it. All she states is that she grew up in a small Cretan village before moving to London. When Alexis decides to visit Crete, Sofia gives her daughter a letter of introduction to a friend who will be able to fill in details. Alexis is astonished that the village of Plaka is a stone's throw from Greece's former leper colony. Through the friend of her mother's Alexis at last heart her mother's story...a story of her great-grandmother Eleni and her daughters, and a family rent by tragedy, war and passion.
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