A House in Corfu: A Family's Sojourn in Greece

This book is the story of Emma Tennants parents house Rovinia set above the bay in Corfu where legend has it Ulysses was shipwrecked and found by Nausicaa daughter of King Alcinous. It is also the story of people like Maria a miraculous cook and the presiding spirit of the house and her husband Thodoros and of the inhabitants of the local village high on the hill above the bay.. Full of color and contrast A House in Corfu shows the huge changes in island life since the time of the Tennants arrival and celebrates equally the joy of belonging to a timeless world: the world of vine olive and sea.