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Daughters of The Labyrinth (Hardcover)
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'An immersive novel, steeped in the history and folklore of Crete:
transporting, historically informative story-telling' Sunday Times
'A moving, superbly written exploration of a family with dark
secrets. Crete itself becomes one of the main characters in the
story' Irish Times, Best Books 2021 ---------- This was my home.
This harbour and sea. These golden alleys. But the town I grew up
in has disappeared. Ri is a successful international artist who has
worked in London all her life. When her English husband dies she
turns to her Greek roots on Crete, island of mass tourism and
ancient myth, only to discover they are not what she thought. As
Brexit looms in the UK, and Greece grapples with austerity and the
refugee crisis, she finds under the surface of her home not only
proud memories of resisting foreign occupation but a secret, darker
history. As an artist, she has lived by seeing and observing. Now
she discovers how much she has not seen, and finds within herself
the ghost of someone she never even heard of. Unearthing her
parents' stories transforms Ri's relationships to her family and
country, her identity and her art. Lyrical, unsettling and
evocative, Daughters of the Labyrinth explores the power of buried
memory and the grip of the past on the present, and questions how
well we can ever know our own family. ---------- 'Daughters of the
Labyrinth is a novel about a daughter's passionate quest for the
truth about what happened to her parents in Crete during the German
occupation. It is also a sumptuous and sensuous evocation of Crete
itself, its landscape and culture. Ruth Padel's brings a poet's eye
to this world of great physical beauty and gnarled legacy' Colm
Toibin
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