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The Anne Weale Collection

Passage To Paxos and Wedding Of The Year

by Anne Weale

Published 1987388 pagesISBN 978-0-2637-5707-1

Passage to Paxos Valissa lost herself in her work after her fiance's tragic death. When she finally allowed herself a holiday she intended to spend it quietly--and alone--on a Greek island. But fate had other things in store. A storm at sea, a broken engine on her rented calque and a handsome sailor to rescue her....Dion Stephanides made Valissa forget everything but him and their newfound love--until he proposed. How could a sensible girl marry a man with a footloose life-style and no visible source of income? Wedding of the Year "Don't encourage him," her mother told her But the advice had come too late. Savanna Bancroft was already committed to the devastating and wealthy Jago Kindersley. Seeing her face on a fashion magazine, he had followed her to the Caribbean island and determinedly wooed and won her. Savanna never had a chance. The bewitched Savanna, head over heels in love with him, had needed little persuasion. Yet, deep down, she knew that her mother's instinct was right. It was all too perfect. There just had to be a flaw somewhere!

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction, Romance. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Fiction · Romance

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Balanced tone · Steady pace

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Reading lengthA standard-length read388 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 1987
Primary categoryFictionAlso cataloged under Romance
ISBN-13
978-0-2637-5707-1
Language
English
Edition record
OL28973256M
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A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Begin with its place in Fiction, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What does the central character want, and what do they misunderstand about that desire?
  2. Which detail or relationship changes how you interpret the story?
  3. What feeling or question does the book leave with you after the plot moves on?

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