Used Book – The Island, Victoria Hislop

Summer is ending in Plaka, a village on the north coast of Crete. Alexis, a young English archaeology graduate, chose to go there because it's where her mother was born and lived until she was eighteen. A terrible discovery awaits Alexis, who knows nothing about her family history: from 1903 to 1957, Spinalonga, the island facing Plaka, which so resembles a languid animal lying on its back, was a leper colony... and her great-grandmother supposedly perished there. What frightening mysteries does this island, overlooked by the ruins of a Venetian fortress, hold? Why did Sophia, Alexis's mother, so violently break with her past? The young woman is determined to unveil the heartbreaking destiny of her ancestors and their dark secrets... A moving plea against exclusion, The Island of the Forgotten, translated into twenty-five countries and selling over two million copies, has captivated the whole world.