The Corsican Woman

by Madge Swindells

Book Overview

Set on the island of Corsica during the Second World War, The Corsican Woman is a stunning novel of passion and revenge. When the beautiful Sybilia is married off to the son of her town's leader, she... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446513717
• ISBN13: 9780446513715
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Suspenseful, dramatic, and exceptionally fine novel

"I did not murder Xavier Rocca, I executed him..." With those compelling words begins the story of a people bound to an ancient and secretive code of honor and an extraordinary heroine driven to defy it. She is Sybilia Rocca, brought to an isolated Corsican village at sixteen and forced to marry Xavier Rocca's son. Now, twenty years later, she walks into the village square and shoots her influential father-in-law to death. By the laws of Corsican vendetta, Sybilia must pay with her life. But the Corsican woman is so beautiful and mysterious that a visiting American has made her his obsission. Soon Jock Walters will begin his own desperate fight to save her, following a trail of compulsion and desire back to World War II, to a love both tender and tragic, and to an act of betrayal more shocking and more terrible than anything this man can imagine...

I read it five years ago and can't forget it!

This book haunts me. It will make you weep but leave you in a better place once your done with it. If you can find this book you have found a treasure.