The House at Zaronza - Charming Vacation Rental in Corsica | Perfect for Family Getaways & Romantic Escapes

I bought this as the author was recommended to me, and I knew pretty much nothing about Corsica. At first I thought it was going to be a modern day novel, but then it cuts back a century or so to village life on the island, in particular the circumstances surrounding one central character, her teenage adventures, through her marriage not of choice and fires her into the First World War in the area of the Verdun conflict and further west, this when the character is nursing the wounded and dying. Then there is her return to Corsica and the shortages of labour, the island having lost so many sons and fathers to the ravages of that war.What I hadn't realised about the author was the pace at which she would make this reader turn the pages. Much of the areas the character passes through from adolescent to adult to wartime nurse in a foreign land were new to me, but I was readily able to venture forth. That's some talent as after a few days I had read the whole book. (It would have been less but I kept being interrupted by a thing called work. Kuh.)I now see that there's a strong possibility of a sequel. This, I will be looking forward to.