'Brings Greek history to compelling life' Sunday Times
'Nobody writes about Greece quite like Victoria Hislop' Red
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Discover for yourself why 10 million readers and critics worldwide love Victoria Hislop's books . . .
A stunning box set edition of captivating novels from multi-million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Victoria Hislop - four immersive and moving stories set against the unforgettable backdrop of the Greek Islands.
The perfect introduction to these transporting novels for new readers, or a beautiful collector's gift for long-time fans...
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The Greek Island Collection includes:
THE ISLAND
This was not the start of a short trip to deliver supplies. It was the beginning of a one-way journey to start a new life. Life on a leper colony. Life on Spinalonga.
Fifty years later, making a life-changing journey of her own, Alexis Fielding feels the pull of the abandoned island. A distant shadow off the coast of Crete, she knows it holds the secrets of her mother's past, buried for so long but surely not forgotten . . .
THE SUNRISE
In the golden city of Famagusta, Greek and Turkish Cypriots alike enjoy a life of good fortune.
Invasion comes without warning, bringing chaos and terror.
As forty thousand people flee their homes in panic, Famagusta becomes a ghost town. But not everyone will find it so easy to leave . . .
THOSE WHO ARE LOVED
After decades of political uncertainty, Greece is polarised between Right- and Left-wing views when the Germans invade. Fifteen-year-old Themis comes from a family divided by these political differences.
The Nazi occupation deepens the fault-lines between those she loves and in the civil war that follows the end of the occupation, Themis joins the Communist army.
Eventually imprisoned on the infamous islands of exile, Makronisos and then Trikeri, Themis encounters another prisoner whose life will entwine with her own in ways neither can foresee. And finds she must weigh her principles against her desire to escape and live . . .
ONE AUGUST NIGHT
25th August 1957. The island of Spinalonga closes its leper colony. And a moment of violence has devastating consequences.
When time stops dead for Maria Petrakis and her sister, Anna, two families splinter apart and, for the people of Plaka, the closure of Spinalonga is forever coloured with tragedy.
In the aftermath, the question of how to resume life looms large. Stigma and scand
