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Dilys Powell s love affair with Greece and the Greeks began on a sunbaked archaeological dig in 1931. Joining her husband, the archaeologist Humfry Payne, on the remote peninsula of Perachora, she came to know the villagers who laboured on the site, camping beside them year after year, for months at a time.

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Set over 40 years against the backdrop of the most romantic story-filled villa in Crete, The Villa Ariadne is the tale of three of the most charismatic British Hellenophiles since Lord Byron