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"[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 More…

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 More.

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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