I loved how different they all were and this ended up being a very rare occasion in which I actually cared about every single perspective being offered to me. However, Afra has seen so many terrible things that they have to go on a perilous journey through Greece and Turkey to start a new and uncertain life in the United Kingdom.

Still, this goes to show that it wasn't particularly exciting to me, because I've powered through books in the middle of the night whilst dead-tired because I really wanted to know what happens next. Born in 1980, Lefteri was raised in the British capital London, which is where she has lived most of her life. A 3 star rating is on the generous side, but it had charm and was enjoyable in places so anything less would be a bit mean. To talk of the Turkish shoe-maker who came to the town and took her heart away with him when he left.

Christy Lefteri (Author) Brought up in London, Christy Lefteri is the child of Cypriot refugees who moved to the UK in 1974 during the Turkish invasion. what really saddened me about the question was our obvious need to categorise, label and put people into boxes. Adem Berker is a Turkish soldier and for him, the invasion of his former home is an opportunity to seek out the woman he has loved for so many years. In general, I tend to be bored with books centered around the descriptions of a particular place and time, and built up with details of the characters, and that don't really have a plot, but I wasn't.

Nuri wants to be the strong one, but Lefteri subtly, slowly shows the reader how deep his wounds are as well. In 2010, she published her debut work “A Watermelon, a Fish, and a Bible” but it was her second novel that made her name as an author to watch.Emotional depth and honest description of the Cyprus's rural and London city landscape, contrasting context setting a mood throughout the story. I often found I had to take a glance back to pick up the thread with different characters but on the whole they blended together well to form a web of relationships, and victims and perpetrators alike suffered from the horrors of the war in Cyprus.