What a magnificent book and one of my favourites. I had read De Berniere’s Birds without wings and could not wait to read his other books. This has definitely wowed me!

De Berniere’s use of language and vocabulary is to be enjoyed and devoured slowly. Take your time and really savour this book.

It’s a novel based around a love story of a Greek and Italian in the time of the Second World War when Cephallonia was being torn apart by the Germans and then the Greek rebel groups that emerged after they left.

It’s a book that leaves you longing and hankering for a good ending because there is so much heart ache and tragedy in the second half of it.

And as I wished and coveted...Louis De Bernier delivered a fitting end ...I shed a few happy tears and now I can sleep :) #BookClosed