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Cartes Postales from Greece

By: Victoria Hislop
Narrated by: Dan Stevens, Victoria Hislop, Esther Wane, Gareth Armstrong, James Gant, Sandra Duncan
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Cartes Postales from Greece is an extraordinary new audiobook from Victoria Hislop, the Sunday Times number one best-selling author of The Island, The Return, The Thread and The Sunrise. It is fiction in full colour - magical and unique.

Week after week the postcards arrive, addressed to a name Ellie does not know, with no return address, each signed with an initial: A. With their bright skies, blue seas and alluring images of Greece, these cartes postales brighten her life. After six months, to her disappointment, they cease. But the montage she has created on the wall of her flat has cast a spell. She must see this country for herself.

On the morning Ellie leaves for Athens, a notebook arrives. Its pages tell the story of a man's odyssey through Greece. Moving, surprising and sometimes dark, A's tale unfolds with the discovery not only of a culture but also of a desire to live life to the full once more.

©2016 Victoria Hislop (P)2016 Headline Digital Contemporary Fiction Genre Fiction Greece Heartfelt

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"Victoria Hislop writes so vividly about the Med, you can almost feel the scorching heat." (Good Housekeeping)
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I cannot wait for my next trip to Greece after reading this. Lots of short stories and fables woven into the main narrative. Each tale provoking a different emotion and mood, and each as captivating as the last. The whole thing beautifully read by the author and others. I've bought the book so that I can re read my favourite stories and list all the places I need to go to asap!!

Wonderful - dig out your passport!

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Refreshingly different from her novels, almost a Documentary containing wonderful stories both ancient & modern about Greece.Whilst I loved The Island & The Thread, I was disappointed by The Sunrise & for me, Cartes Postales is as I said 'refreshingly different'

Refreshingly different

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I love the narration: the postcards come to life and the events stay with me

Wonderful holiday reading

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A lovely story beautifully told. I've never visited the Peloponnese and this has been a delightful introduction. Other parts of Anthony's travels were familiar to me. An engaging and engrossing book for everyone.

Greece in my Heart. Perfect.

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I suspect that if I'd read this I would not have enjoyed it so much but it was brought to life, for me, by the reader.

Some readers/listeners have suggested that this is a random selection of short stories linked by a tenuous thread or a travelogue enticing one to Greece.
I don't agree. I felt very connected to the emotions of both man and girl. They are decent, intelligent, sentient human beings with deep, undemonstrative emotions. Victoria Hislop made their own stories interesting.
Also I was, almost always, captivated by the tales told along the way - some were shocking.
A lovely satisfying, believable ending.
Thank you.

Well worth listening to

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