One August Night - Victoria Hislop

*THE FIGURINE, the brand-new novel from Victoria Hislop, is available to order now.*''Excellent as ever. Victoria Hislop at her best.'' Reader review''Within a few pages I was back in Greece and almost feeling the sun on my face.'' Reader reviewBeloved author Victoria Hislop returns to Crete in this long-anticipated sequel to her multi-million-copy Number One bestseller, The Island.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 scandal need to be confronted and somehow, for those impacted, a future built from the ruins of the past.Number one bestselling author Victoria Hislop returns to the world and characters she created in The Island - the award-winning novel that remains one of the biggest selling reading group novels of the century. It is finally time to be reunited with Anna, Maria, Manolis and Andreas in the weeks leading up to the evacuation of the island... and beyond.''A return to Hislop''s thyme-scented, Aegean-lapped fictional Greece'' The Sunday TimesDiscover for yourself why ten million readers worldwide love the novels of Victoria Hislop...''This dramatic, absorbing and good-natured novel abounds Greek Island atmosphere''Daily Mail on O
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