The
Olive Garden Choir
Fleming, Leah
creator
author.
text
Domestic fiction.
enk
2019
monographic
eng
vii, 293 pages ; 23 cm.
"On the beautiful island of Santaniki, close to Crete, it's not all white sands and sunshine. When retired bookseller Ariadne Blunt suggests the English residents form a choir, there are groans of resistance. After a little persuasion, the group gather in Ariadne's olive garden to rehearse for a seasonal concert, but each member of this choir has their own anxieties and secrets. Ariadne's partner, Hebe, is in failing health. Clive struggles to accept the loss of his wife while Natalie hides her shameful secret in baking for comfort. Della, the Pilates teacher drinks too much and Chloe, Queen Bee of the village society, faces a family dilemma. Then there is Mel, the real songbird amongst them, English wife of a taverna owner who hides her talent until the choir inspires her to raise her voice once more. In this tiny community, the choir brings the residents together like never before in a bittersweet tale of love and loss - and how life can begin again when you let go of the past."--Publisher's description.
Leah Fleming.
General.
Older people
England
Fiction
English
Greece
Fiction
Secrecy
Fiction
Choirs (Music)
Greece
Crete
Fiction
Crete (Greece)
Fiction
823.92
9781788548663
9781788548687
9781788548670
YDX
181206
20190208080436.0
on1043560632
eng