Books by Victoria Hislop
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review 1: Mitsos is going to school in Greece. His parents live abroad but his grandparents still live in the land they were born. He asks them why they don't move and live in Britain with their children. They answer by giving him a historical account of the town of Thessaloniki, Greece...
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review 1: A young man of Greek descent in 2007 hears the story of his grandparents Dimitri and Katerina Komninos on the island of Thessaloniki. It is a story of war in the Balkans, Greek nationalism, anti-semitism, cultural tolerance as well as an observation of capitalism vs communist ide...
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review 1: Ever since reading the author's debut novel I've been hoping to recapture the magic of The Island and whilst better than her second novel, The Return, this, her third, is still by no means as good.Set in Thessaloniki, Greece, and spanning two world wars the crux of The Thread rev...
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review 1: a book about my city? definetely yeah!!!i totally loved this book!!!! I read it in 2 days (not on holidays) so now i really need a long hour sleep!!!! I had ages to be so completely into a book and living in agony for the characters, even though we knew the end of their story fro...
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review 1: I really enjoyed this book, people always seem to compare Victoria Hislops book to the Island which I think is unfair, that book was unique and one of my fav's but we should take each book on its own merit. I found this story quite comforting, (strange given that it was about war...