Why does news of the discovery of a Minoan earring turn Diane’s world on its head? And what is her daughter Catherine, single parent to Ellie, to make of the holiday break that is suddenly announced for all three? Unearthing secrets long-since buried but now stubbornly emerging to haunt the present, they encounter both love and betrayal in a land once scarred by the ravages of war-time invasion. Three generations, three thousand miles adrift, in a sea of echoes three thousand years old. All are Lost in Crete .