20 Questions With Victoria Hislop
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The Graham Norton Radio Show
Victoria Hislop joined the Graham Norton Radio Show to talk about Maria’s Island.
Juliet Stevenson reads “Those who are Loved”
You can now listen to exclusive extracts from the audiobook of Those Who are Loved, read by Juliet Stevenson, courtesy of Headline books.
You can listen to the whole excerpt by clicking the link below
Or listen to individual chapters by clicking on the links below
The complete audiobook is available to purchase from Audible, and from iTunes.
Synopsis
Those Who Are Loved, Victoria’s gripping new Sunday Times Number One bestseller, is set against the backdrop of the German occupation of Greece, the subsequent civil war and a military dictatorship, all of which left deep scars.
Athens 1941. After decades of political uncertainty, Greece is polarised between Right- and Left-wing views when the Germans invade.
Fifteen-year-old Themis comes from a family divided by these political differences. The Nazi occupation deepens the fault-lines between those she loves just as it reduces Greece to destitution. She watches friends die in the ensuing famine and is moved to commit acts of resistance.
In the civil war that follows the end of the occupation, Themis joins the Communist army, where she experiences the extremes of love and hatred and the paradoxes presented by a war in which Greek fights Greek.
Eventually imprisoned on the infamous islands of exile, Makronisos and then Trikeri, Themis encounters another prisoner whose life will entwine with her own in ways neither can foresee. And finds she must weigh her principles against her desire to escape and live.
As she looks back on her life, Themis realises how tightly the personal and political can become entangled. While some wounds heal, others deepen.
Victoria on Woman’s Hour
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Victoria talks to Jane Garvey on Woman’s Hour (BBC Radio 4) about her new book ‘Cartes Postales from Greece‘
You can listen to the chapter featuring Victoria from the Woman’s Hour podcast using the audio player here:
Otherwise, the entire episode of Woman’s Hour is available on BBC iPlayer. Click here to listen.
Listen to “Cartes Postales”…
Listen to an exclusive excerpt from Cartes Postales from Greece read by Dan Stevens
Victoria on BBC’s A Good Read
Victoria Hislop and One Show presenter Alex Jones talk with Harriett Gilbert about their favourite books. Alex Jones has chosen The Girls by Lisa Jewell, while Harriett’s pick is Days of Abandonment by the writer everyone’s talking about, who goes by the pseudonym Elena Ferrante. And what do three women who aren’t keen on Virginia Woolf make of Victoria’s choice, Michael Cunningham’s The Hours?
To listen on BBC iPlayer, click here.
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