Reviews
"[The Return] should be
required reading for anyone going to Spain
this year..."
Daily Mail
"Hislop deserves a medal
for opening a breach into the holiday beach-bag" Read
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Boyd Tonkin,
Independent
"Hislop's honourable mission
is to remind readers of the atrocities of
the 1930s and the equally dishonourable 'pact
of forgetting' that came after them. This
makes for gripping fiction…" Read
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Melissa
Katsoulis, The Telegraph
Synopsis
Beneath the majestic
towers of the Alhambra, Granada’s cobbled streets resonate
with music and secrets. Sonia Cameron knows
nothing of the city’s shocking past;
she is here to dance. But in a quiet café,
a chance conversation and an intriguing collection
of old photographs draw her into the extraordinary
tale of Spain’s devastating civil war.
Seventy years earlier,
the café is
home to the close-knit Ramírez family.
In 1936, an army coup led by Franco shatters
the country’s fragile peace, and in
the heart of Granada the family witnesses
the atrocities of conflict. Divided by politics
and tragedy, everyone must take a side, fighting
a personal battle as Spain rips itself apart.
Captivating and deeply
moving, Victoria Hislop’s second
novel is as inspiring as her international
bestselling debut, The Island.
THE RETURN ***
has been – or
in some cases, will be - published in the
following countries:
- UK: Headline;
- US: Harper
Perennial;
- Brazil: Intrinseca;
- Germany: Heyne;
- Greece: Dioptra;
- Holland: De
Boekerij;
- Israel: Miskal;
- Italy: Bompiani;
- Poland: Albatros;
- Portugal: Civilizacao;
- Russia: Family
Leisure Club;
- Slovakia: Ikar;
- Sweden: Norstedts
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