Victoria on BBC Breakfast
Victoria discusses “Cartes Postales from Greece” with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin on BBC Breakfast
Cartes Postales
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Sainsbury’s Author of the Month
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 […]
Finding Inspiration in the Peloponnese
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. […]
Postcards #2: Hilltop church, Andros
There are many small churches on the island of Andros. This one is almost high enough to be a lighthouse and must be visible to boats for a long way before they come in to the harbour. It is named after Icarus, who in mythology, drowned in the sea close-by.
Postcards #1: The Eye
The mati, the eye: This is a very common symbol in Greece and throughout the Middle-East. In Greece, at baptisms, a ‘mati’ is pinned on to the baby’s clothing (and every guest is given one to wear). This protects the child from evil. Most people in Greece have an eye hanging in their house […]
