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The Forgotten Smile

Margaret Kennedy author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:4th Sep '14

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The perfect holiday read: four visitors discover a new lease of life and reawaken old loves on a mysterious Greek island

Kate is bored of being overlooked by her grown-up children and decides to escape on an Aegean cruise. She ends up in Keritha – a mysterious Greek island all but forgotten by the modern world. But under the spell of this strange and beautiful island both visitors find themselves, and each other, cast in a new light.Kate is bored of being overlooked by her grown-up children and decides to escape on an Aegean cruise. She ends up in Keritha – a mysterious Greek island all but forgotten by the modern world. There she encounters her childhood friends, the Challoners, returned to the island of their birth to claim their heritage. When another stray arrives: the unattractive, foolish Selwyn Potter, Kate is irritated. But under the spell of this strange and beautiful island both visitors find themselves, and each other, cast in a new light.

An imaginative tale, symbolic and haunting and yet at times wryly humorous * Kirkus Reviews *
Margaret Kennedy caught just the taste of the time, mixing a stolid domestic Englishness with 'Continental' bohemians * Irish Times *
She is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed -- Anita Brookner
Kennedy was immensely popular in her heyday * Washington Post *

ISBN: 9780099595496

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 19mm

Weight: 248g

304 pages