Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (Audio Book)

I loved so much about this book. Its beautiful, funny and fascinating characters entirely took me in. The historical setting was evocative, tragic and overwhelming, particularly its treatment of Mussolini and the invasion of Greece in World War Two.

I foresaw my current inarticulate attempts to do justice to this book and as a result found myself constantly wanting to write down sentences, phrases, whole chapters as the most eloquent demonstration of the books qualities.

I won't go into why the ending to this book prevented it's acclamation as my absolute favourite. That explanation would probably sound like a rant and certainly spoil the ending for those who haven't read it.

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