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Victoria Hislop


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Victoria Hislop read English at Oxford, and worked in publishing, PR and as a journalist before becoming a novelist. She is married with two children.

Her first novel, The Island, held the number one slot in the Sunday Times paperback charts for eight consecutive weeks and has sold over two million copies worldwide. Victoria was the Newcomer of the Year at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2007 and won the Richard & Judy Summer Read competition.

Her second novel, The Return, was also a Sunday Times number one bestseller, and her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. A short story collection, One Cretan Evening, was published in September and both a third novel, The Thread is published in English in October and in Greek in N ...more

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Average rating: 3.98 · 156,808 ratings · 11,534 reviews · 61 distinct works • Similar authors
The Island
4.12 avg rating — 59,274 ratings — published 2005 — 35 editions
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The Thread
4.08 avg rating — 17,685 ratings — published 2011
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The Return
3.92 avg rating — 15,043 ratings — published 2008 — 63 editions
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One August Night
3.74 avg rating — 14,451 ratings — published 2020 — 32 editions
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Those Who Are Loved
4.14 avg rating — 11,822 ratings — published 2019
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The Sunrise
3.86 avg rating — 12,104 ratings — published 2014 — 55 editions
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The Figurine
4.07 avg rating — 11,385 ratings — published 2023 — 11 editions
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Cartes Postales from Greece
3.43 avg rating — 7,627 ratings — published 2016 — 32 editions
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The Last Dance and Other St...
3.53 avg rating — 2,752 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions
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One Cretan Evening and Othe...
3.59 avg rating — 1,524 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions
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The Island One August Night
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“Like any collection of family photographs, it was a random selection that told only fragments of a story. The real tale would be revealed by the pictures that were missing or never even taken at all, not the ones that had been so carefully framed or packed away neatly in an envelope.”
― Victoria Hislop, The Island
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“The sun rose, the moon saturated the night sky with its silver light and the stars blazed, indifferent to the events happening below them.”
― Victoria Hislop
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“They wound their way through a labyrinth of streets, partly following their noses, partly the orientation of the map. Jardines, Mirasol, Cruz, Puentezuelas, Capuchinas...
Each word held its magic. They were like brushstrokes painting the landscape of the city, each one helping to build up a picture of the whole.”
― Victoria Hislop, The Return
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