The novelist Victoria Hislop has fallen in love with a little-known area of the city. She describes the places few tourists see. (September 24 2016, The Times) Not long ago, during a quiz on Greek television, a question came up on whether I had a house in a) Kolonaki, b) Plaka, c) Glyfada or d) […]
[wonderplugin_audio id=”1″] Victoria talks to Jane Garvey on Woman’s Hour (BBC Radio 4) about her new book ‘Cartes Postales from Greece‘ You can listen to the chapter featuring Victoria from the Woman’s Hour podcast using the audio player here: Otherwise, the entire episode of Woman’s Hour is available on BBC iPlayer. Click here to listen.
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Listen to an exclusive excerpt from Cartes Postales from Greece read by Dan Stevens
Ellie is miserable, but a shaft of Mediterranean sunlight enters her life when she starts receiving a series of Cartes Postales from Greece signed by an anonymous ‘A’. When they stop arriving after six months she decides to go and visit the country. As she sets off, a notebook arrives from ‘A’ telling of his […]
By Victoria Hislop For The Mail On Sunday “In my new book, Cartes Postales From Greece, my fictional character makes a journey around Greece and falls in love with the Peloponnese. In order to write about him, I had to go travelling myself, heading westwards from Athens to this wonderful southernmost part of mainland Greece. […]
