Greece, a statue of a person under the water,

[carol]

Story; Set in Greece, there is a statue of a person under the water. might be on an island with goats and a boy. Possibly a doctor who returns to London to work at some point, set in the 20th century. It was an old book as I remember it in the 1980's . thanks any idea's

 

[psychotick]

Hi,

Any more details? Plot maybe? All that springs to mind is the aphrodite inheritence where Greek statues were sort of relevant. Not sure if it was ever a book.

Cheers, Greg.

 

[Toby Frost]

Was it by Daphne du Maurier? I remember a story about a man staying in Greece that was a bit like that except for the underwater statue.

 

[hitmouse]

Sounds like Gerald Durrell if you take away the statue.

 

[tachyon]

In "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" there's an island with a golden statue of a man in a pool of water, (Goldwater/Deathwater Island) and of course a boy or two.

 

[Danny McG]

Was there a robot squid in the story?

 

[Cat's Cradle]

It's late, so I'm loopy, and this won't help the OP at all, but it just makes me very happy to be a member of a site where someone can ask the question "Was there a robot squid in the story?", and it's a reasonable thing to be enquiring about. Well done, dannymcg!

I hope we can find your story, Carol! CC

 

[psychotick]

Hi,

Personally I don't like robot squids. If only it had been an android octopus - that would have been alright!!!

Cheers, Greg.

 

[Danny McG]

It was a very faint memory of a story I read where they were doing an Atlantis hunt. They set off by putting the robot squid through it's test runs in a sunken temple beside a Greek island.

IIRC there was mounting evidence of hostile Atlanteans so the squid was to infiltrate. (Dammit! This will be a book search in it's own right if I don't remember It )