This is the first Victoria Hislop novel that I have read. It is the story of Themis who as an elderly woman recounts her life in Greece from the 1930s, through the German occupation and how as a communist fighter she is held in intolerable conditions by her own countrymen. It was fascinating to read about a period of history that I was unaware of, and gives a different perspective to the WWII stories that abound at the moment. 4/5
