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Christy Lefteri was born in London in 1980 to Greek Cypriot parents who moved to London in 1974 during the Turkish invasion. She completed a degree in English and a Masters in creative writing at Brunel University. She taught English to foreign students and then became a secondary school teacher before leaving to pursue a PhD and to write. She is also studying to become a psychotherapist.
20th July 1974. The Turks invade Kyrenia in Cyprus, taking it for their own. They bring death, destruction and, for a very few, the beginning of a new life. Everyone has always talked about Koki. They never believed she was her father's daughter and her mother died too soon to quiet their wagging tongues. And when she became pregnant as a teenager and there was no sign of a husband, her fate was sealed. So she lives outside the town and hides from her neighbours' eyes. But, held captive by the army with the very women who have made her life so lonely, Koki is finally able to tell them the truth about their lives. To talk of the Turkish shoe-maker who came to the town and took her heart away with him when he left. And how she has longed for him all these years, never knowing why he disappeared. Meanwhile, Adem Berker, a Turkish soldier, finds himself living in a dream. He is back in Kyrenia, his former home, now as a member of the invading force. 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. And in London, Richard hears of the invasion and his memories of Cyprus come flooding back, filling his grey bedsit where the underground trains rattle the foundations. Memories of his life as a pilot, the parties, the music and, most vividly, a woman, a child and a secret it is becoming all too hard to keep.
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