I was one of the people that adored The Island by Victoria Hislop. Since reading it I've been waiting for what seemed like ages for her second novel to appear. Well, my wait is finally over as The Return is released at the end of June.
When Sonia orders a cup of coffee in a quiet cafe in Spain a conversation and some old photographs leads her into the extraordinary tale of the Ramirez family and their fight to survive Spain's civil war some seventy years earlier. In 1936 an army coup led by Franco reduces Spain to a country in turmoil and the family are divided by politics and tragedy.
I love historical fiction, especially around the 1930s and 1940s so I'm really looking forward to reading this.
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