BIG name for a book: The Return. Victoria Hislop’s second novel, following her popular debut, The Island. Books titled The Return share with The Iliad, Divine Comedy, and War and Peace a BIG thematic title that promises a BIG delivery. Such works are must-reads for any serious Book Being. Victoria Hislop was thinking BIG. Give her credit for that, but you also have to wonder what she was thinking… I do try to avoid clumsy…

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