With a fire, WW1 and serious civil unrest plaguing the streets of Greece, the tale is poignant, and at times harrowing as the effects of such turbulence take their toll on the city’s people. The Thread is an apt name for a novel which cleverly weaves a story of race, religion and war using a colourful cast of characters. In 1917 a devastating fire tears through Greece’s second city Thessalonki, a place where Muslims, Christians and Jews have lived side by side in harmony for years. Not dissimilar to both The Island and The Return, Hislop’s latest offering interweaves two different time frames one set in the present day the other in 1917, with the plot concentrating primarily on the earlier of the two. I also spent many weeks longing to visit the small Greek fishing village of Plaka, where her first novel was set and so I was expecting a similar feeling of wanderlust to emerge on reading her third. So enthralled was I with the cobbled streets of Granada and the heady dancing in Hislop’s second novel that I took up salsa soon after. Hislop’s writing excels in conveying a tangible sense of place and she truly is a born storyteller. Having torn through both The Island and The Return, I was excited to discover that author Victoria Hislop had a third novel coming out – this time called The Thread.
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