The Figurine

Victoria Hislop

£9.99

Number One Sunday Times bestseller Victoria Hislop’s powerful new novel shines a light on the questionable acquisition of antiquities and the price people will pay to possess them.

Paperback

Fiction > General

ISBN: 9781472263940

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An unputdownable read with a family’s dark history giving a unique glimpse into Greece’s troubled past.

Athens sparkles in Victoria Hislop’s imagination.

Concealed beneath the dust sheets in the Athens apartment she has inherited from her grandparents, Helena McCloud discovers a hidden hoard of rare antiquities, amassed during a dark period in Greek history when the city and its people were gripped by a brutal military dictatorship.

Helena’s fascination for archaeology, ignited by a summer spent on a dig on an Aegean island, tells her that she must return these precious artefacts to their rightful place.

Only then will she be able to allay the darkness of the past and find the true meaning of home – for cultural treasures and for herself.

Victoria Hislop is back with another compulsive page-turner.

Discover for yourself why 10 million readers and critics worldwide love Victoria Hislop’s books…

A tightly wrought excavation of family history’ – Mail on Sunday

Searing and powerful’ – Daily Express

Glorious Greek setting and rich historical detail’ – Woman & Home

Hislop’s thyme-scented, Aegean-lapped fictional Greece’ – The Sunday Times

Her love for Greece shines through and transports readers to a brilliantly drawn world’ – Independent

Family turmoil, unanswered questions, romance and betrayal, all served up against the backdrop of Greece and its enchanting history’ – Daily Express


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Weight 0.4 kg
Dimensions 20 × 13 × 5 cm