The Thread: 'Storytelling at its best' from million-copy bestseller Victoria Hislop
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Thessaloniki, 1917. As Dimitri Komninos is born, a devastating fire sweeps through the thriving Greek city where Christians, Jews and Muslims live side by side. Five years later, Katerina Sarafoglou's home in Asia Minor is destroyed by the Turkish army. Losing her mother in the chaos, she flees across the sea to an unknown destination in Greece. Soon her life will become entwined with Dimitri's, and with the story of the city itself, as war, fear and persecution begin to divide its people.
Thessaloniki, 2007. A young Anglo-Greek hears his grandparents' life story for the first time and realises he has a decision to make. For many decades, they have looked after the memories and treasures of the people who were forced to leave. Should he become their next custodian and make this city his home?
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Praise for The Thread
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Enjoyable, thought-provoking and poignant - Scottish Woman magazine
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Sweeping, magnificently detailed and ambitious - The Sunday Times
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Fast-paced narrative and utterly convincing sense of place - Guardian
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Fresh, tenacious and rather intrepid - Independent
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This is storytelling at its best and just like a tapestry, when each thread is sewn into place, so emerge the layers and history of relationships past and present - Sunday Express
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Her best novel yet - Scotsman
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A brilliant page turner and destined to become a reading group staple, THE THREAD is rich with drama and historical detail - Glamour
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Meticulously researched and compellingly told - Woman & Home
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