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Welcome back to Zorba’s, where love is complicated, lies are well-intentioned, and nothing is ever quite finished.
Zorba’s Embrace: Love, Lies & Lemon Groves is the third book in Peter Barber’s much-loved Zorba’s Taverna series, a warm, funny, and quietly profound story about belonging, second chances, and the fragile miracles that hold a Greek village together.
Winter has arrived in Telios. The tourists have gone, the sea has teeth, and the taverna survives on olive oil, stubbornness, and a fridge that may be possessed. As village life slows, old questions refuse to stay buried. Will Mary return? Has Paulo really gone for good? And can Zorba’s survive another season of gossip, inspectors, weddings, and and celebrations that arrive unannounced and refuse to end.
Around the tables gather a familiar cast: Zorba, retired in theory; Alex, accidental mayor and force of nature; Theodora, queen of the kitchen; Dimitri the fisherman-poet; Maria, guardian of gossip; Spiros, philosopher of the bench, plus goats, priests, and at least one wedding nobody officially planned.
Hilarious and tender, Zorba’s Embrace is about the families and communities we build without meaning to, and the quiet courage it takes to keep them alive.
Pull up a chair.
Eat what you’re given.
No substitutions.

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