40. CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN

Louis de Bernieres

In 1941, the forces posted to the Greek island of Kefalonia include music-loving young Italian, Antonio Corelli. He soon falls in love with Pelagia – the daughter of a local doctor – but the couple’s romance is thwarted by the atrocities of war. It’s certainly no fairytale romance, but this intensely moving story will tug at your heart strings.