The Island
The million-copy Number One bestseller 'A moving and absorbing holiday read'
$19.54
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2006
Summary
A beautiful 10th anniversary paperback edition that includes a new essay by Victoria Hislop on the impact of this million-copy bestseller.
‘A moving and absorbing holiday read that pulls at the heartstrings’
The acclaimed million-copy number one bestseller. Victoria Hislop tells a dramatic tale of four generations, illicit love, violence and leprosy, from the thirties, through the war, to the present day.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780755309511 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0755309510 |
| Author: | Victoria Hislop |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Headline Review |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 32mm |
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Critics Review
€~Wonderful descriptions, strong characters and an intimate portrait of island existence’Woman & Home
‘Adding depth and colour to the story is the description of Cretan life… in particular, the vividly detailed account of life on Spinalonga… It is one of the achievements of this thoughtful novel that it presents the lives of the island’s inhabitants with such empathy. The result is a fascinating work that combines a moving love story witha plea for more understanding about this most cruel of diseases’ - The Times
‘This is a vivid, moving and absorbing tale, with its sensitive, realistic engagement with all the consequences of, and stigma attached to leprosy, elevating it beyond holiday literature’ - Observer‘Passionately engaged with its subject…the author has meticulously researched her fascinating background and medical facts’ The Sunday Times - The Sunday Times‘Gently gripping tale’ - Scotsman on Sunday‘A page-turning tale that reminds us that love and life continue in even the most extraordinary of circumstances’ Sunday Express - Sunday Express‘Hislop’s deep research, imagination and patent love of Crete creates a convincing portrait of times on the island… A moving and absorbing holiday read’ - Evening Standard‘Passionately engaged with its subject…the author has meticulously researched her fascinating background and medical facts’ - The Sunday Times‘Wonderful descriptions, strong characters and an intimate portrait of island existence’ Woman & Home - Woman & HomeAbout The Author
Victoria Hislop
Victoria Hislop is the multi-million copy bestselling author of ten books, including The Island, The Return, The Thread, The Sunrise, Those Who are Loved, The Last Dance and Other Stories, Cartes Postales from Greece, and One August Night. Her most recent novel, The Figurine, topped the UK TCM as the biggest selling single edition in the country for two consecutive weeks in 2024.
Her books have been translated into forty languages, and Victoria was executive producer on the adaptations of three of her novels for Greek television.
Victoria divides her time between England and Greece and in 2020 was granted honorary citizenship by the President of Greece. She is Vice President of the British School at Athens, is on the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles, and also on the Advisory Board for the Parthenon Project.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and holds Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Patra and Sheffield. In 2025, she was awarded the Byron Medal for Philhellenism at the Athens Academy and became the first woman to become an honorary member of the Society of Greek Writers.
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