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Cartes Postales from Greece by Victoria Hislop &#; My review

If I never read one page of this book I would still love it for the amazing photographs taken by Alexandros Kakolyris. The pictures he has captured are a thing of beauty.

&#;This is a book conceived under Greece&#;s unique light, a light that Victoria wanted me to capture. Her imagination is unstoppable. From her reaction I realized what my part in this venture was. It wasn&#;t only interesting and demanding&#; was fascinating!

I had to capture the story as it was created.&#;

Cartes Postales is more than just a book. It is a series of interwoven stories written in a notebook about one man&#;s journey through Greece. The stories both inform and inspire the reader, with descriptions that surpass anything I&#;ve read. I have always loved Victoria Hislop&#;s books but this one is extra special. With paragraphs and stories reminiscent of Paulo Coelho&#;s writing, the reader is taken on a journey through the history of Greece.

A, the author of these stories, has suffered quite a traumatic breakup and as a writer, decides to catalog his  journey on the back of postcards and in a journal. He imagines he is writing to the person he has lost in love and continues to post them to where he thinks she lives.

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Published by Headline Review 22 September

pp, hardback, £

Reviewed by Shirley Whiteside

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This is Victoria Hislop’s sixth work of fiction, and rather than a novel it is a series of short stories and vignettes framed within two narratives. Filled with photographs of Greece, it’s a charming book designed as the ideal read for busy people or those on holiday.  The comforting, conversational style means it easy to put the book down for a while and then pick up the threads of the stories again.

It opens with Ellie, a newcomer to London who is feeling lonely and isolated, wondering where the bright lights and beautiful people are hiding. One day a postcard arrives from Greece, signed ‘A’. Ellie assumes that the postcard is meant for a previous occupant of her rented basement flat, but the postcards keep arriving and Ellie begins to look forward to them. The collage she makes of them brightens her miserable home and she is dejected when, after six months, they suddenly stop. Although Ellie is the first frame for the short stories, Hislop does not dismiss her with a thumbnail sketch. Ellie is given a backstory, and her feelings of isolation are authentic. The postcards from the mysterious ‘A’ fill a clearly outlined emotional void and Ell