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Cartes Postales from Greece

The runaway Sunday Times bestseller
  • Author
    • Victoria Hislop
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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. It is fiction in full colour - magical and unique.

'Hislop's passionate love of the country breathes from every page' Daily Mail


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.

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
  • Published: Aug 10 2017
  • 196 x 128mm
  • ISBN: 9781472223210

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Press Reviews

  • The Sunday Times </i>on<i> The Sunrise
    Intelligent and immersive... Hislop's incisive narrative weaves a vast array of fact through a poignant, compelling family saga
  • The Times </i>on<i> The Sunrise
    Fascinating and moving... Hislop writes unforgettably about Cyprus and its people
  • Mail on Sunday </i>on<i> 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
  • Good Housekeeping </i>on<i> The Sunrise
    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
  • Tatler </i>on<i> The Sunrise
    Vibrant... Hislop brings history to life in this compelling tale
  • Independent on Sunday </i>on<i> 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
  • The Sunday Times </i>on<i> The Island
    Passionately engaged with its subject...meticulously researched
  • Guardian </i>on<i> 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
  • Express </i>on<i> The Island
    A beautiful tale of enduring love and unthinking prejudice
  • Observer </i>on<i> The Island
    A vivid, moving and absorbing tale
  • Sunday Express </i>on<i> The Thread
    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
  • Choice </i> magazine on <i>The Thread
    Peopled with memorable characters, this is a powerful, moving and beautifully told novel of loyalty and love, hope and fear
  • The Sunday Times </i>on<i> The Thread
    A sweeping, magnificently detailed and ambitious saga that wrestles with the turbulence of the period Hislop covers
  • Sunday Express S Magazine </i>on<i> 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
  • Express </i>on<i> 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
  • Sunday Mirror </i>on<i> Cartes Postales from Greece
    With sumptuous photography - this is a lavish love letter to Greece
  • Sunday Mirror </i>on<i> Cartes Postales from Greece
    A lavish love letter to Greece
  • Heat </i>on<i> Cartes Postales from Greece
    When it comes to tales about Greece, Hislop is an undisputed queen - and this is easily her best novel yet
  • Daily Mail </i>on<i> Cartes Postales from Greece
    Hislop's passionate love of the country breathes from every page
  • Fabulous, Sun on Sunday </i>on<i> Cartes Postales from Greece
    This beautiful novel is illustrated with gorgeous photos to really bring the country to life
  • Red online </i>on<i> Cartes Postales from Greece
    A tender love story that will make you wish your own summer holiday wasn't a distant memory
  • Cathy Rentzenbrink

    Prima </i>on<i> Cartes Postales from Greece
    A beautiful tale of love, struggle and redemption
  • The Lady </i>on<i> 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
  • Mail on Sunday </i>on<i> Cartes Postales from Greece
    A tantalising glimpse of a country far removed from the usual tourist resorts and beaches
  • The Sunday Times </i>on<i> Cartes Postales from Greece
    Impressively imagined . . . make[s] you want to jump on a plane to Athens