Eros, beauty and friction: what happened when Susan Johnson took her 85-year-old mother to live on a Greek island

Have you ever dreamed of fleeing your current life and spending weeks or months or even a year living on an island in the Mediterranean?

This is what Susan Johnson longed for and did, taking her mother with her to the Greek island of Kythera.

Reading Johnson’s new memoir Aphrodite’s Breath while taking myself off for a month of writing near …