Victoria Hislop: The Island
Fiction - Family Saga
Published by Headline Review 2006
The Island is a tale of raging war where a family struggles through death, disease and family disgrace, making this a truly captivating story. We are immediately placed into the Greek way of life and those tragedies faced during the Second World War. We follow the main character Alexi on a journey of discovery that finds her back in the past where she discovers the truth about her hidden family history. Alexi does become the bystander who watches on as the past comes to life, with her ancestors taking centre stage. As this charming story enfolds, Hislop creates a turbulent atmosphere with gripping emotion, sorrowful moments and lighter, more cheerful times.
Even though Hislop has created a fictional family saga, her Greek detail and exact accounts and facts about Leprosy help bring life and reality to a thoroughly passionate book. By the end, we have a far greater sense of optimism and warmth generated from this novel, than we would have thought possible at the beginning.
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