The Gypsy's Dream
(By Sara Alexi)
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The Gypsy’s Dream is a delightful, heart-warming yet challenging story of self-discovery, immersing you in a rural Greek village where the simple setting betrays the complex interwoven lives of the villagers who live there.
Light-hearted yet unafraid to delve in to the dark, the story simultaneously follows the lives of two females, one in her youth and the other in her older years, whose unforeseen encounter impacts them both forever.
Abby, a naïve yet headstrong teenager from England, storms out of her family house and boards a flight to Greece. With the promise of a bar job lined up for her by a friend at home, Abby gets hopelessly lost and ends up in the wrong village. Alone, with very little money, unable to speak Greek and with no way to contact her friend at home, Abby finds she has to stand on her own two feet for the first time…
Trapped in an abusive and loveless marriage to a cruel husband, Stella, from a Gypsy background, has spent her life believing she doesn’t deserve the good things life has to offer. A lack of self-belief has Stella feeling gratitude for having married at all.
Seeking work in the village, Abby meets Stella who runs the local ouzeri, a rough and ready eatery where farmers gather to drink and take refuge from their domestic lives. Although kind-hearted, hardworking Stella does not need a naive young English girl hanging around. And the ouzeri is far from the glamorous bar that Abby had bargained for.
But when events throw them together, the situation brings to the boil tensions that have been brewing for years, the ripples drawing in other people in the village, threatening Abby’s ability to ever leave, culminating in shocking unforeseen events and the uncovering of dark secrets that change peoples’ thinking about themselves and others permanently.
If you enjoyed The Gypsy’s Dream you'll love book five in the series, The Art of Becoming Homeless. Find it on Amazon now!”
