The Greek Village Series Books One, Two and Three
(2013)(A book in the Greek Village series)
An omnibus of novels by Sara Alexi
Sara Alexi's Greek Village Series provides a unique perspective on rural Greek village life that readers all over the world have come to love.
Here the first three books in the series are presented together.
THE ILLEGAL GARDENER
Sara Alexi weaves this entrancing story of the burgeoning relationship that develops between two people from very different backgrounds and cultures; an English woman living in Greece and the Pakistani illegal immigrant who becomes her gardener and house boy.
Each brings their own problems, their own past baggage, and she approaches these with sympathy and understanding as well as exploring the nuances and differences in their cultures as they become more and more dependent on each other.
This is a book that will stay with you long after you've finished reading...
BLACK BUTTERFLIES
Although the island looks harmless, Marina knows it harbours ghosts from the past. Nothing would induce her to visit there again - except to protect her daughter.
Sara Alexi's second book is a romp packed with a troupe of colourful characters intertwining in a gripping story.
By turn uproariously funny, touching or sad this book is the stuff of which all families are made.
Hopes, fears, secrets and misunderstandings beset relationships.
Discovery and acceptance bridge a divide.
THE EXPLOSIVE NATURE OF FRIENDSHIP
Mitsos has spent the last twenty years trying to comes to terms with the events of a single day and all that led up to it. In his twilight years a surprising turn of events gives him a chance to rectify his biggest wrong and give himself the peace he is seeking.
But is what he has wanted for the last twenty years what he still wants now and is he the man he thought he was?
Set against a backdrop of a small Greek farming village, comedy and tragedy are present in equal measures.
Sara transports you to a land of sea and sun as she explores what it means to be human, and fallible.
The book examines the nature of friendship, and how our choices and our perceptions of our place in society can define us.
Genre: General Fiction
Here the first three books in the series are presented together.
THE ILLEGAL GARDENER
Sara Alexi weaves this entrancing story of the burgeoning relationship that develops between two people from very different backgrounds and cultures; an English woman living in Greece and the Pakistani illegal immigrant who becomes her gardener and house boy.
Each brings their own problems, their own past baggage, and she approaches these with sympathy and understanding as well as exploring the nuances and differences in their cultures as they become more and more dependent on each other.
This is a book that will stay with you long after you've finished reading...
BLACK BUTTERFLIES
Although the island looks harmless, Marina knows it harbours ghosts from the past. Nothing would induce her to visit there again - except to protect her daughter.
Sara Alexi's second book is a romp packed with a troupe of colourful characters intertwining in a gripping story.
By turn uproariously funny, touching or sad this book is the stuff of which all families are made.
Hopes, fears, secrets and misunderstandings beset relationships.
Discovery and acceptance bridge a divide.
THE EXPLOSIVE NATURE OF FRIENDSHIP
Mitsos has spent the last twenty years trying to comes to terms with the events of a single day and all that led up to it. In his twilight years a surprising turn of events gives him a chance to rectify his biggest wrong and give himself the peace he is seeking.
But is what he has wanted for the last twenty years what he still wants now and is he the man he thought he was?
Set against a backdrop of a small Greek farming village, comedy and tragedy are present in equal measures.
Sara transports you to a land of sea and sun as she explores what it means to be human, and fallible.
The book examines the nature of friendship, and how our choices and our perceptions of our place in society can define us.
Genre: General Fiction
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