Victoria Hislop competition
Competition to win one of three copies of Those Who Are Loved
If you’re dying to get your hands on the new (and not yet released) novel by Victoria Hislop then why not enter The BookTrail’s competition!? Those wonderful people at Headline have offered us THREE copies up for grabs for three lucky readers. UK only.
What’s the book about?
Athens 1941. 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 just as it reduces Greece to destitution. She watches friends die in the ensuing famine and is moved to commit acts of resistance.
In the civil war that follows the end of the occupation, Themis joins the Communist army, where she experiences the extremes of love and hatred and the paradoxes presented by a war in which Greek fights Greek.
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.
As she looks back on her life, Themis realises how tightly the personal and political can become entangled. While some wounds heal, others deepen.
Verdict…
It’s as fascinating as it is exquistly written and researched.
