In the 1960s Emma Tennant's parents found a magical bay in Corfu and built a house there. This is the story of that house, Rovinia, set above the bay where, legend has it, Ulysses was shipwrecked. It is also the story of the people who have been at Rovinia since the house was built, and of the local villagers. Full of colour, A House in Corfu shows the huge changes in i~lancl life since the 1960s, and celebrates the joy of belonging to the timeless world of vine, olive and sea.

When Frances goes to work for an ex-author in a remote part of Wales, she finds the son, Rolf, suspicious of her motives in coming to the house. Nevertheless, there was a strong attraction between them...

Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochiondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenie's vivacious cousin enters the household as a 'hired girl', Ethan finds himself obsessed with her. In this classic piece of twentieth century American literature, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies.