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Cartes Postales from Greece: The runaway Sunday Times bestseller
Victoria Hislop
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Description for Cartes Postales from Greece: The runaway Sunday Times bestseller
Paperback. 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 2015 Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Cartes Postales from Greece is an extraordinary new book from Victoria Hislop, the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of The Island, The Return, The Thread, and The Sunrise. A beautifully depicted love affair with Greece, and a spellbinding tale of love and loss. It is fiction with a distinctive photographic framework - magical and unique.
'Hislop's passionate love of the country breathes from every page' Daily Mail
'When it comes to tales about Greece, Hislop is ... Read more
Week after week, the postcards arrive, addressed to someone Ellie does not know, each signed with an initial: A.
These alluring cartes postales of Greece brighten her life and cast a spell on her. She decides she must see this country for herself.
On the morning Ellie leaves for Athens, a notebook arrives. Its pages tell the story of a man's odyssey through Greece. Moving, surprising and sometimes dark, A's tale unfolds with the discovery not only of a culture, but also of a desire to live life to the full once more.
Praise for Cartes Postales. . .
'When it comes to tales about Greecem Hislop is an undisputed queen'
Heat magazine
'A lavish love letter to Greece'
Sunday Mirror
'A beautiful tale of love, struggle and redemption'
Prima
'This wonderful, illuminating novel is a perfect escape'
Woman & Home
'This beautiful novel is illustrated with gorgeous photos to really bring the country to life'
Sun on Sunday Show Less
*THE FIGURINE, the brand-new novel from Victoria Hislop, is available to order now.*
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Cartes Postales from Greece is an extraordinary new book from Victoria Hislop, the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of The Island, The Return, The Thread, and The Sunrise. A beautifully depicted love affair with Greece, and a spellbinding tale of love and loss. It is fiction with a distinctive photographic framework - magical and unique.
'Hislop's passionate love of the country breathes from every page' Daily Mail
'When it comes to tales about Greece, Hislop is ... Read more
Week after week, the postcards arrive, addressed to someone Ellie does not know, each signed with an initial: A.
These alluring cartes postales of Greece brighten her life and cast a spell on her. She decides she must see this country for herself.
On the morning Ellie leaves for Athens, a notebook arrives. Its pages tell the story of a man's odyssey through Greece. Moving, surprising and sometimes dark, A's tale unfolds with the discovery not only of a culture, but also of a desire to live life to the full once more.
Praise for Cartes Postales. . .
'When it comes to tales about Greecem Hislop is an undisputed queen'
Heat magazine
'A lavish love letter to Greece'
Sunday Mirror
'A beautiful tale of love, struggle and redemption'
Prima
'This wonderful, illuminating novel is a perfect escape'
Woman & Home
'This beautiful novel is illustrated with gorgeous photos to really bring the country to life'
Sun on Sunday Show Less
Product Details
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472223210
SKU
V9781472223210
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Victoria Hislop
Victoria Hislop is the multi-million copy bestselling author of eight books, including The Island, The Return, The Thread, The Sunrise, Those Who are Loved, The Last Dance and Other Stories and Cartes Postales from Greece. Her books have been translated into forty languages. Her most recent novel, One August Night, returned to Crete in the long-anticipated sequel to The Island ... Read more
Reviews for Cartes Postales from Greece: The runaway Sunday Times bestseller
When it comes to tales about Greece, Hislop is an undisputed queen - and this is easily her best novel yet
Heat on Cartes Postales from Greece
A 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 ... Read moreon 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
Show Less
Heat on Cartes Postales from Greece
A 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 ... Read moreon 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
Show Less