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Cartes Postales from Greece
- Author
- Victoria Hislop
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Headline
- Publish Date
- 22 September 2016
- Run Time
- 8 hours 12 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
'Victoria Hislop writes so vividly about the Med, you can almost feel the scorching heat' Good Housekeeping
Week after week, the postcards arrive, addressed to a name Ellie does not know, with no return address, each signed with an initial: A.
With their bright skies, blue seas and alluring images of Greece, these cartes postales brighten her life. After six months, to her disappointment, they cease. But the montage she has created on the wall of her flat has cast a spell. 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.
Beloved, bestselling author Victoria Hislop's Cartes Postales from Greece is fiction illustrated with photographs that make this journey around Greece, already alive in the imagination, linger forever in the mind.
(P)2016 Headline Digital
Critics Review
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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
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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
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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
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A lavish love letter to Greece
Sunday Mirror on Cartes Postales from Greece
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Hislop's passionate love of the country breathes from every page
Daily Mail on Cartes Postales from Greece
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This beautiful novel is illustrated with gorgeous photos to really bring the country to life
Fabulous, Sun on Sunday on Cartes Postales from Greece
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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
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A beautiful tale of love, struggle and redemption
Prima on Cartes Postales from Greece
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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
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A tantalising glimpse of a country far removed from the usual tourist resorts and beaches
Mail on Sunday on Cartes Postales from Greece
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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
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Fascinating and moving... Hislop writes unforgettably about Cyprus and its people
The Times on The Sunrise
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Impressively imagined . . . make[s] you want to jump on a plane to Athens
The Sunday Times on Cartes Postales from Greece
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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
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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
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Vibrant... Hislop brings history to life in this compelling tale
Tatler on The Sunrise
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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
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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
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A beautiful tale of enduring love and unthinking prejudice
Express on The Island
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A vivid, moving and absorbing tale
Observer on The Island
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Details
- Author
- Victoria Hislop
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 8 hours 12 minutes
- Release Date
- 22 September 2016
- ISBN
- 9781472223531
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Headline
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
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. It is fiction in full colour - magical and unique.'Victoria Hislop writes so vividly about the Med, you can almost feel the scorching heat' Good Housekeeping Week after week, the postcards arrive, addressed to a name Ellie does not know, with no return address, each signed with an initial: A.With their bright skies, blue seas and alluring images of Greece, these cartes postales brighten her life. After six months, to her disappointment, they cease. But the montage she has created on the wall of her flat has cast a spell. 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. Beloved, bestselling author Victoria Hislop's Cartes Postales from Greece is fiction illustrated with photographs that make this journey around Greece, already alive in the imagination, linger forever in the mind.(P)2016 Headline Digital
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