By Elsie Lee
Dolly Graeme, half of a fashionable firm of interior decorators, flees London after her affair with her partner ends. She explores a Greek island and falls in love with the people who live there, including a London-based doctor taking a sabbatical. Contemporary romance, circa 1972, but fun.
Severity reflects intensity, not value — “central theme” means a warning is a core part of the book, not that the book is bad.