Last Letter from Istanbul
By (Author) Lucy Foley
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
24th August 2018
9th August 2018
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Historical romance
823.92
Paperback
532
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 27mm
290g
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This will sweep you away for the summer. Lucy Foley blends a rich history, haunting secrets and a timeless love story Santa Montefiore, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Deverill series
ISTANBUL, 1921
Before the Occupation, Nurs city was a tapestry of treasures: the Grand Bazaar alive with colour, trinkets and spices; saffron sunsets melting into the black waters of the Bosphorus; the sweet fragrance of the fig trees dancing on the summer breeze . . .
Now the shadow of war hangs over the city, and Nur lives for the protection of a young boy with a terrible secret. Stumbling through the streets, carrying the embroideries that have become her livelihood, she avoids the gazes of the Allied soldiers. Survival is everything.
When Nur chances upon George Monroe, a medical officer in the British Army, it is easy to hate him. Yet the lines between enemy and friend grow fainter.
She and the boy would both be at risk. Nur knows that she cannot afford to fall impossibly and dangerously in love . . .
Lucy Foley's gorgeous elegant prose and the way she conjures up post war Constantinople makes this a beautiful, evocative and memorable read Lucinda Riley
An evocative and sensitively written novel about ill-fated love, sacrifice and the violent effects of war S Magazine
Lucy Foley studied English Literature at Durham and UCL universities and worked for several years as a fiction editor in the publishing industry, before leaving to write full-time. Lucy's debut thriller, The Hunting Party, was an instant Sunday Times and Irish Times bestseller, and was inspired by a particularly remote spot in Scotland that fired her imagination. Lucy is also the author of three historical novels, which have been translated into sixteen languages. Her journalism has appeared in ES Magazine, Sunday Times Style, Grazia and more.