The haunting beauty of Crete, devastating family secrets, war, passion and the spirit to survive...

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1. How does deal with the concept of outcasts? In what ways were the Spinalonga islanders prisoners, and were they ever, in any sense, more free than those on the mainland?
   
   
2. Eleni’s departure for Spinalonga is an incredibly moving passage. How do the characters survive leaving their families knowing they will never see them again? How would you cope?
   
   Did you feel any sympathy for Anna?
   
   
3. Secrecy is a recurring theme throughout . Were Sofia’s adoptive parents right to keep her family history from her, and was Sofia right to keep it from Alexis?