Forty years on, lawyer Maria Hadjivasili, who escaped with her family, revisits her home town with author Victoria Hislop Mail on Sunday, October 12 by Victoria Hislop For “You” Maria Hadjivasili has the easy, relaxed glamour of a successful professional woman in her 50s. Divorced with a grown-up daughter, she runs her own law practice […]
by Ioanna Zikakou – Sep 29, 2014 40 years ago, the Cypriot town of Famagusta was occupied by Turkish forces. Today it’s capturing media attention once again, as the subject of Victoria Hislop’s new novel, “The Sunrise,” which will be released in Greece on October 22. “As I was writing my book I felt as if […]
by Jaine Blackman for Oxford Mail Her husband may be a very well-known face on TV, but bestselling novelist Victoria Hislop, who visits Woodstock on Monday, is big in Greece. Jaine Blackman reports The Hislop family is undoubtedly a super-bright one. Bestselling novelist Victoria and Private Eye editor Ian met at Oxford University, their daughter […]
The island writer on coming back to Lytham, writing, her new book and how maybe women should run the world. By Emma Harris @Eve_Writer_Emma Last time best-selling author Victoria Hislop came to Lytham, she really enjoyed it. So the Oxford-educated novelist is looking forward to returning again in less than two weeks’ time, for a […]
