{"id":4234,"date":"2024-10-01T20:35:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T18:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/?p=4234"},"modified":"2024-10-02T10:29:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T08:29:41","slug":"the-island-full-of-sounds-and-sweet-airs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/?p=4234","title":{"rendered":"This island full of \u2018Sounds and Sweet Airs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hi everyone. Happy autumn!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve just come back from a holiday in Corfu. In a way it was a sort of pilgrimage – of the literary kind.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I\u2019ve posted before of my love for Mary Stewart books. I was about fourteen when I discovered her. Her love for Greece, knowledge of the Classics, and poetry ignited something in me. The early romantic suspenses have stayed with me all my life, most especially the ones set in Greece.
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This Rough Magic takes place on the island of Corfu. \u2018Resting\u2019 actor Lucy goes to stay with her wealthy sister and encounters Sir Julian Gale and his son, Max. Sir Julian delights in the theory that Corfu is the island Shakespeare had in mind when writing The Tempest. The title of the book is a line from Prospero\u2019s famous speech and each chapter is headed with an appropriate quote from the play.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Mary Stewart, as ever, superbly describes the setting in a few crisply chosen words and even though written in the sixties it still held true when I read my kindle edition on the plane over. I didn\u2019t find the cove with the twin villas and the Gothic Forli Castello, didn\u2019t spot a dolphin in the sea but, wandering the narrow streets of Corfu Town, came across Saint Spiridion. Corfu\u2019s patron saint, he\u2019s mentioned throughout the book, holds the island in his benevolent care and is paraded around in a ceremony four times a year. The Easter celebrations are described in This Rough Magic and when I accidentally came across a beautiful church hidden away in a narrow street, I knew I\u2019d found the place where the saint\u2019s remains are kept.
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Corfu is an island with many literary connections well worth investigating. I was thrilled to finally visit. Sitting in the airport waiting to fly out to the sun I had a literary connection of my own. I celebrated with champagne. Can\u2019t say much more but will share my exciting news soon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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