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The Thread: 'Storytelling at its best' from million-copy bestseller Victoria Hislop

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: 'Storytelling at its best' from million-copy bestseller Victoria Hislop

Enjoyable, thought-provoking and poignant - Scottish Woman magazineSweeping, magnificently detailed and ambitious - The Sunday TimesFast-paced narrative and utterly convincing sense of place - GuardianFresh, tenacious and rather intrepid - IndependentThis 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 ExpressHer best novel yet - ScotsmanA brilliant page turner and destined to become a reading group staple, THE THREAD is rich with drama and historical detail - GlamourMeticulously researched and compellingly told - Woman & Home

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. Victoria's 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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