Cartes Postales from Greece by Victoria Hislop
The new Top Ten bestseller from Victoria Hislop, author of the multimillion copy reading group classic, The Island and The Sunrise, one of the ten biggest selling novels of 2015A lavish love letter to Greece * Sunday Mirror on Cartes Postales from Greece *
Hislop's passionate love of the country breathes from every page * Daily Mail on Cartes Postales from Greece *
This beautiful novel is illustrated with gorgeous photos to really bring the country to life * Fabulous, Sun on Sunday on Cartes Postales from Greece *
A tender love story that will make you wish your own summer holiday wasn't a distant memory * Red online on Cartes Postales from Greece *
A beautiful tale of love, struggle and redemption -- Cathy Rentzenbrink * Prima on Cartes Postales from Greece *
A discerning fly-on-the-wall view of the country, a heady mix of poetic licence and gravitas. . Greece works its magic in Hislop's latest ode to the country * The Lady on Cartes Postales from Greece *
A tantalising glimpse of a country far removed from the usual tourist resorts and beaches * Mail on Sunday on Cartes Postales from Greece *
Impressively imagined . . . make[s] you want to jump on a plane to Athens * The Sunday Times on Cartes Postales from Greece *
With sumptuous photography - this is a lavish love letter to Greece * Sunday Mirror on Cartes Postales from Greece *
Hislop has woven colour photographs of the stunning Greek landscape into her narrative. I enjoyed being transported to Greece on Hislop's wings of words and vivid descriptions * Express on Cartes Postales from Greece *
Victoria Hislop's love affair with Greece continues, bringing the country triumphantly to life . . . [her] imaginative and compelling stories paint a remarkable portrait of Greece and its history * Sunday Express S Magazine on Cartes Postales from Greece *
This is storytelling at its best and just like a tapestry, when each thread is sewn into place, so emerge the layers and history of relationships past and present * Sunday Express on The Thread *
A vivid, moving and absorbing tale * Observer on The Island *
Peopled with memorable characters, this is a powerful, moving and beautifully told novel of loyalty and love, hope and fear * Choice magazine on The Thread *
A beautiful tale of enduring love and unthinking prejudice * Express on The Island *
Hislop carefully evokes the lives of Cretans between the wars and during German occupation, but most commendable is her compassionate portrayal of the outcasts * Guardian on The Island *
Passionately engaged with its subject...meticulously researched * The Sunday Times on The Island *
Victoria Hislop writes so vividly about the Med, you can almost feel the scorching heat. An absorbing tale about family, friendship, loyalty and betrayal, set during a violent period in the history of Cyprus * Good Housekeeping on The Sunrise *
Adroitly plotted and deftly characterised, Hislop's gripping novel tells the stories of ordinary Greek and Turkish families trying to preserve their humanity in a maelstrom of deception, betrayal and ethnic hatred * Mail on Sunday on The Sunrise *
Hislop hasn't of course been into Famagusta - no one may, even now - but has stood near the barbed wire and imagined what life was like there, then and now, with her usual gift for presenting bits of history most of us are unfamiliar with from a fictional point of view * Independent on Sunday on The Sunrise *
Vibrant... Hislop brings history to life in this compelling tale * Tatler on The Sunrise *
Fascinating and moving... Hislop writes unforgettably about Cyprus and its people * The Times on The Sunrise *
Intelligent and immersive... Hislop's incisive narrative weaves a vast array of fact through a poignant, compelling family saga * The Sunday Times on The Sunrise *
A sweeping, magnificently detailed and ambitious saga that wrestles with the turbulence of the period Hislop covers * The Sunday Times on The Thread *
Victoria Hislop is the multi-million copy bestselling author of ten books, including The Island, The Return, The Thread, The Sunrise, Those Who are Loved, The Last Dance and Other Stories, Cartes Postales from Greece and One August Night. Victoria's most recent novel, The Figurine, topped the UK TCM as the biggest selling single edition in the country for two consecutive weeks in 2024.
Her books have been translated into forty languages and Victoria was executive producer on the adaptations of three of her novels for Greek television.
Victoria divides her time between England and Greece and in 2020 was granted honorary citizenship by the President of Greece. She is Vice President of the British School at Athens, is on the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles and also on the Advisory Board for the Parthenon Project.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and holds Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Patra and Sheffield. In 2025, she was awarded the Byron Medal for Philhellenism at the Athens Academy and became the first woman to become an honorary member of the Society of Greek Writers.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781472223210 |
| ISBN 10 | 1472223217 |
| Title | Cartes Postales from Greece |
| Author | Victoria Hislop |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Headline Publishing Group |
| Year published | 2017-08-10 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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