![]() ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Continue without accepting’ or ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices or learn more. Third parties use cookies for the purposes of displaying and measuring personalised advertisements, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we will also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. I know this is nit-picking and that every work of fiction uses artistic licence, but for me all of these little issues accumulated to ruin the storyline of a book I really wanted to like.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences, and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. Even back in 1974 taxi fares from Heathrow into London were eye- wateringly expensive. And as for the taxi fare from the airport to Richard's bedsit being £1. It is full of office blocks not blocks of flats. Except that Queen Victoria street is not and never has been a residential area. Richard's bedsit is located in a block of flats on Queen Victoria street near the Mansion house. Even the London based parts of the story have problems. No Greek Cypriot would go anywhere near there in normal times and certainly not in the days just after the Turkish invasion. And the taxi drive from Pyrgos to Limassol accomplished so easily in the story, in reality would not only have taken hours but would have been extremely dangerous as the road taken skirts the Turkish Cypriot enclave of Kokkina which was a Turkish military area. However there are larger issues which for me completely invalidated the story eg the entirely implausible journey by rowing boat from Kyrenia. Some are minor and just irritate eg Greek coffee is never served with olives, zivania not ouzo is the drink of choice on Cyprus And everyone, even the English, refer to Avgolemono soup not "egg and lemon" soup. For listeners of The Island, The Book Thief and The Kite Runner.Īny book which is set against a background of real events happening in real places needs to be well researched in order to get the detail correct - particularly when the events are relatively recent and there are still people who remember ( and many of whom are likely to want to read the book) This book is not well researched however and is scattered with inaccuracies and inconsistencies. ![]() Here he left everything he ever wanted and, by cover of darkness, risking his life, he is searching every house, every cafe, every old pathway, for just a glimpse of the only woman he has ever loved. Meanwhile, Adem Berker finds himself back in Kyrenia, his former home, now as a member of the invading force. To talk of the Turkish shoemaker who came to the town and took her heart away with him when he left.Īnd how she has longed for him all these years. But, held captive with the very women who have made her life so lonely, Koki is finally able to tell them the truth. So she lives outside the town and hides from her neighbours' eyes. And when she became pregnant and there was no sign of a husband, her fate was sealed. They never believed she was her father's daughter and her mother died too soon to quiet their wagging tongues. But for some, it is a chance to begin living again.Įveryone has always talked about Koki. For many people, this means an end to life as they know it. It is July 1974 and on a bright, sunny morning, the Turkish army has invaded the town of Kyrenia in Cyprus. ![]() A moving novel of love and war by the author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo. ![]()
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