The Island

489 Pages·2007·0.95 MB·English

by  Victoria Hislop

For my mother, Mary
Contents

Part 1
Chapter One
UNFURLED FROM ITS mooring, the rope flew
through the air… 5
Chapter Two
ALEXIS SLEPT DEEPLY that night. When she
and Fotini finally… 39
Part 2
Chapter Three
EARLY MAY BRINGS Crete its most perfect
and heaven-sent… 57
Chapter Four
THE CLUSTER OF people Eleni had noticed
earlier now moved… 66
Chapter Five
WHEN ELENI LEFT for Spinalonga, Anna was
twelve and Maria 84
Chapter Six
AFTER ITS BEST winter in years came Spinalonga’s
most glorious… 112
Chapter Seven
DR LAPAKIS HAD informed Giorgis that he was
expecting a… 131
Chapter Eight
‘MARIA, MARIA!’ SCREAMED Anna from the
street below her sister’s… 143
Chapter Nine
ALTHOUGH THE LEPER executed just metres off
their shore had… 168
Part 3
Chapter Ten
IT WAS AS though they had been breathing in a… 185
Chapter Eleven
‘HEY! ANTONIS! HERE a minute!’ 197
Chapter Twelve
ANNA WAS NOW four years married and
thriving on her… 219
Chapter Thirteen
FOR THE NEXT week, Manoli was vexed.
This was unusual… 232
Chapter Fourteen
THE ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN Manoli
and Maria was cemented with a… 251
Chapter Fifteen
WITHIN A WEEK of writing, Giorgis had received
a reply… 271
Chapter Sixteen
WHEN GIORGIS ARRIVED home, he found that
Fotini was already… 285
Chapter Seventeen
AT THE MOMENT when Maria wanted time to
stand still… 292
Chapter Eighteen
AUTUMN IMPERCEPTIBLY TURNED to winter
and the musky smell of… 314
Chapter Nineteen
THE DOCTOR’S SMILE changed the climate
around him. Kyritsis had… 334
Chapter Twenty
IT DID NOT take long for word to get around… 352
Chapter Twenty-One
AFTER THE BAPTISM, Giorgis hung back as the
crowd made… 377
Chapter Twenty-Two
AS THEY WOULD have done in any normal
year, the… 393
Chapter Twenty-Three
WITNESSES SOON EMERGED from the crowd.
One bystander had heard… 414
Chapter Twenty-Four
FOR SEVERAL MONTHS there was no
communication between the Vandoulakis… 427
Part 4
Chapter Twenty-Five
AS FOTINI REACHED this point in the story,
she was… 451
Chapter Twenty-Six
IT WAS THE night before Sofia was to leave for… 455
Chapter Twenty-Seven
ALEXIS WAS SOON back on the road to Iraklion.
It… 470

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The island of Spinalonga, off the north
coast of Crete, was Greece’s main
leper colony from 1903 until 1957.