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Edition 3: Lesvos, Sundance & Literary Adaptations

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Helen Walsh
Feb 01, 2021
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Lesvos: one-eyed cats, black-clad grandmas and the clip clop of donkeys delivering the fish.

“You should come to the village,” my friend David Layton said. “It’s where the severed head of Orpheus came ashore, still singing. It’s also where Golding wrote Lord of the Flies. So, it has good pedigree; it's a place to compose.”

I booked an Aeroplan seat four d…

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