The Corsican Woman by Madge Swindells

The Corsican Woman by Madge Swindells

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Set in Corsica, this tells the story of Sybilia Rocca who is forced into an arranged marriage at the age of 16. Desperately lonely, she finally falls in love, only to have her happiness threatened by a man who embodies the staunchest of Corsican values and traditions, her father-in-law.

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The Corsican Woman by Madge Swindells

Sybilia turned as if sleepwalking and, trance-like, walked down the stone steps to the living room. She shuddered as she took the rifle from the peg on the wall, but after only a moment's hesitation, she loaded it and went outside. Sybilia Rocca is beautiful, gentle and intelligent. But she is also Corsican and in her blood runs the intense passions of her race - the passions that drive her to shoot her father-in-law before stunned witnesses in the small square of the windswept town set high on a Corsican hillside. What is the terrible secret - the dark act of treachery twenty years before - that compels Sybilia to carry out her vendetta? Virtually everyone in the village knows, yet the unwritten law of their culture keeps them silenced. And now Sybilia is fighting for her life, gripped by a passion strong enough to destroy it...
Madge Swindells captures beautifully the flavour of Corsica and its turbulent inhabitant s' EVENING STANDARD
Madge Swindells lives near Cape Town. Before becoming a successful novelist she was a business woman, journalist and gem dealer.
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ISBN 13 9780751507089
ISBN 10 0751507083
Title The Corsican Woman
Author Madge Swindells
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Year published 1988-05-01
Number of pages 480
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.