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The Girl Under the Olive Tree Leah Fleming

The Girl Under the Olive Tree By Leah Fleming

The Girl Under the Olive Tree by Leah Fleming


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Summary

May 1941, and the island of Crete is captured by the Germans bringing together two very different women and changing their lives forever...

The Girl Under the Olive Tree Summary

The Girl Under the Olive Tree by Leah Fleming

FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE LAST PEARL AND DANCING AT THE VICTORY CAFE, this is a beautiful novel about family secrets, wartime betrayals and redemption.

May 1941
and the island of Crete is invaded by paratroopers from the air. After a lengthy fight, thousands of British and Commonwealth soldiers are forced to take to the hills or become escaping PoWs, sheltered by the Cretan villagers.

Sixty years later, Lois West and her young son, Alex, invite feisty Great Aunt Pen to a special eighty-fifth birthday celebration on Crete, knowing she has not been back there since the war.

Penelope George - formerly Giorgidiou - is reluctant to go but is persuaded by the fact it is the 60th anniversary of the Battle. It is time for her to return and make the journey she never thought she'd dare to. On the outward voyage from Athens, she relives her experiences in the city from her early years as a trainee nurse to those last dark days stranded on the island, the last female foreigner.

When word spreads of her visit, and old Cretan friends and family come to greet her, Lois and Alex are caught up in her epic pilgrimage and the journey which leads her to a reunion with the friend she thought she had lost forever - and the truth behind a secret buried deep in the past...

Praise for Leah Fleming
'I enjoyed it enormously.It's a moving and compelling story about a lifetime's journey in search of the truth' RACHEL HORE
'A born storyteller' KATE ATKINSON

The Girl Under the Olive Tree Reviews

'A fabulous story of people, places and pearls from a master storyteller' -- Lancashire Evening Post on The Last Pearl

About Leah Fleming

Leah Fleming was born in Lancashire and is married with three sons and a daughter. She writes from an old farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales and an olive grove in Crete.

Additional information

GOR004865828
9780857204066
0857204068
The Girl Under the Olive Tree by Leah Fleming
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Simon & Schuster Ltd
20130606
464
N/A
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