In order to get more accurate results, our search has the following Google-Type search functionality:
If you use '+' in front of a word, then that word will be present in the search results.
ex: Harry +Potter will return results with the word 'Potter'.
If you use '-' in front of a word, then that word will be absent in the search results.
ex: Harry -Potter will return results without the word 'Potter'.
If you use 'AND' between two words, then both of those words will be present in the search results.
ex: Harry AND Potter will return results with both 'Harry' and 'Potter'.
If you use 'OR' between two words, then bth of those words may or may not be present in the search results.
ex: Harry OR Potter will return results with just 'Harry', results with just 'Potter' and results with both 'Harry' and 'Potter'.
If you use 'NOT' before a word, then that word will be absent in the search results.
ex: Harry NOT Potter will return results without the word 'Potter'.
Placing '""' around words will perform a phrase search. The search results will contain those words in that order.
ex: "Harry Potter" will return any results with 'Harry Potter' in them, but not 'Potter Harry'.
Using '*' in a word will perform a wildcard search. The '*' signifies any number of characters. Searches can not start with a wildcard.
ex: Pot*er will return results with words starting with 'Pot' and ending in 'er'. In this case, 'Potter' will be a match.
For Charmian Clift, Greece was the Promised Land. In 1954 she and her husband, George Johnston, abandoned their sophisticated London existence and set off with two typewriters and two small children to start a new life.
In mermaid Singing – written during the first miraculous year of discovery – Charmian Clift records the family’s adaptation to the primitive sponge-diving island of Kalymnos. As the months go by, Clift captures the rhythm of the seasons and her family’s connection with the island’s ancient myths, with its religious practices, and with the everyday life of the islanders.
Peel Me A Lotus continues this exploration as Clift and Johnston buy a house on the island of Hydra, in the middle of the summer tourist trail.
Charmian Clift’s writing about Greece was undervalued at the time of first publication, because she wrote from a woman’s point of view and recorded the intimate details of daily life. It is exactly this quality which enables these two classic works to appeal to a new generation of readers.