side of the island above a popular public beach). Both the school and villa still exist, although the house is under private ownership. Fowles himself taught English at the school between the years 1951 and 1953. Spetses is also the basis for Catherine Lind’s 2014 novel Unexpected Journeys. Both the apartment hotel and the tavern described exist on Spetses, though under different names. All the other locations described in the book are also actual, many under their real names. The tavern sits at the corner of the old harbour, while the hotel resides just above the small pebbled beach at the end of the new harbour. In the book, one of the main characters tells the island's history through the memories of his grandparents, and the novel's historical descriptions are fairly accurate, amongst other things recounting the story of Laskarina Bouboulina. Maggie Gyllenhaal's 2021 feature film The Lost Daughter was shot on Spetses as well as Rian Johnson's 2022 whodunit Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Demographic evolution Notable residents Laskarina Bouboulina Dimitrios Drivas John Fowles Alexander Frey Diomidis Kyriakos Ioannis Kyriakou Ioannis Malokinis Hatzigiannis Mexis Ioannis Orlandos Georgios Panou Iannis Xenakis Gallery See also List of settlements in Attica Fishtales – The island appears in the children's film. Free-diving – World record free-diving attempts frequently take place around the island. References External links GNTO's web page – Visitgreece.gr Populated places in Islands (regional unit) Municipalities of Attica Saronic Islands Territories of the Republic of Venice Arvanite settlements