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Original Essays | October 18, 2009

From Leprosy to Lorca — Strange Inspiration

0 comments By Victoria Hislop

My first novel, The Island, was inspired by a chance visit to a tiny island leper colony off the coast of Greece on our summer holiday. It was a... Continue »

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brook Kelly, December 23, 2007

The book is really well written, however that doesn't account for the storyline. I've been reading for sometime that a lot of Bangadeshi people were unhappy with the book because it made them out to be ignora... amongst other things. After reading the book I can see exactly where they are coming from. Honestly, I find the letters between the main character and her sister Hasina to be rather pointless to the development of the story. And a lot of the story could have been shortened by at least a hundred pages. There is a lot of usel3ss information in the book, that could have been thrown towards other character developments and storylines. The gist of the story and what it's really all about, whirls at you rather quickly in the last fifty pages if so much. That's almost three hundred and fifty pages that were rather pointless and could have been snarked into two hundred or less at the most. I'd recommend reading Tino Georgiou's bestselling novel--The Fates--if you haven't yet!

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