Cartes Postales from Greece

When it comes to tales about Greece, Hislop is an undisputed queen - and this is easily her best novel yet
A lavish love letter to Greece
Hislop's passionate love of the country breathes from every page
This beautiful novel is illustrated with gorgeous photos to really bring the country to life
A tender love story that will make you wish your own summer holiday wasn't a distant memory
A beautiful tale of love, struggle and redemption
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
A tantalising glimpse of a country far removed from the usual tourist resorts and beaches
Impressively imagined . . . make[s] you want to jump on a plane to Athens
With sumptuous photography - this is a lavish love letter to 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
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
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
A vivid, moving and absorbing tale
Peopled with memorable characters, this is a powerful, moving and beautifully told novel of loyalty and love, hope and fear
A beautiful tale of enduring love and unthinking prejudice
Hislop carefully evokes the lives of Cretans between the wars and during German occupation, but most commendable is her compassionate portrayal of the outcasts
Passionately engaged with its subject...meticulously researched
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
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
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
Vibrant... Hislop brings history to life in this compelling tale
Fascinating and moving... Hislop writes unforgettably about Cyprus and its people
Intelligent and immersive... Hislop's incisive narrative weaves a vast array of fact through a poignant, compelling family saga
A sweeping, magnificently detailed and ambitious saga that wrestles with the turbulence of the period Hislop covers