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The Corsican Woman
The Corsican Woman
Author: Madge Swindells
When the beautiful Sybilia is married off to the son of her town’s leader, she soon discovers that being a woman in 1940s Corsica comes with few freedoms. — But when the Second World War reaches the remote island, Sybilia is pressed into service for her country as a spy and as an assistant to a new arrival in town: the American captain Robi...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780446356039
ISBN-10: 0446356034
Publication Date: 6/1989
Pages: 414
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Publisher: Warner Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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"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.


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