Emily Sullivan: A Death on Corfu
Minnie Harper #1
This lovely, sparkling book is set on Corfu in 1898. It’s the story of widowed Minnie, raising two kids on her own. Minnie is British but her husband chose Corfu for them, and the family was very happy there together. His dying request was for Minnie never to send the children back to England. While Minnie’s son, Tommy, is young and more than entranced by the copious insect and amphibian population, her daughter Cleo is a teen who has reached the eye rolling stage. I doubt that’s what it was called in 1898, but you know what I mean. Cleo is longing to go away to school.