One of P’s library books. I thought this was pretty good for a first novel; a big long chronicle covering the last 100 years or so of a family in a tiny (fictional?) island just off the coast of Sicily. It is quite a primitive place, accessible only by boat.
The founder of the family, a foundling himself born in Florence trains as a doctor and the island is the only place he can get a job.
Although a lot lighter, it reminded me a bit of the Cazalet saga by Elizabeth Jane Howard. It is interspersed with Italian folk tales as variants/illustrations of events in the plot.
She will go on to write better books than this, her first.
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