![]() ![]() Nicola Ferris is on holiday in Crete, surrounded by age-old ruins, sunny skies, and colorful wildflowers. Show More loved to read-my mother, her friends, me, and eventually my younger sisters-and of all Stewart’s books it was The Moon-Spinners that siren-called me back to its pages again and again. That, and knowing that with Stewart things always work out in the end. I think that distracted me enough to allow me to buy into the whole escapade. ![]() What both book and movie have going for them is the breathtaking beauty of the Aegean.Mary Stewart regales us constantly with sea, sun, birds and flowers. Disney did grave damage to this story in its delightfully sanitized movie version, eliminating some characters, changing some of the good guys to bad guys, and turning the competent independent Nikky into Hayley Mills. ![]() The story continues in this incredibly unlikely fashion for around 200 pages, and it's just great Romantic fun, if you can hush up that bit of your brain that keeps saying "NO WAY" to all of it. Does she run like crazy back to the village for help and safety? Nooooo.what kind of a story would that be? She insists on sticking around to help these suspicious characters, who could be up to damn near anything, none of it savory, and spends the night in the hut caring for the feverish injured hunk fellow while his companion strikes out for their boat to fetch supplies. Show More shepherd and windmill country, and what does she encounter but a gunshot Englishman and his knife-wielding Cretan guide hiding out in a hut. ![]()
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