{"product_id":"the-lost-daughters-9781036722609","title":"The Lost Daughters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Dougie McHale, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Hellenic Collection\u003c\/em\u003e, comes a sweeping new standalone novel that brings the Greek Civil War, one of Europe’s most devastating and least-told conflicts vividly to life through the eyes of the women it scarred forever.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Eva’s final IVF attempt fails, her marriage begins to fracture under the weight of grief and exhaustion.  Then a call from Athens pulls her back to Greece: her grandmother Helena is dying and has left behind a final, cryptic instruction.  \u003cem\u003eThe tapes. Skiathos.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat Eva uncovers is a family history shaped by the violence and silences of post-war Greece. Through Helena’s recorded testimony, the novel plunges readers into Athens in 1944, where liberation from Nazi occupation gives way almost immediately to civil war. As British forces intervene and the country fractures along ideological lines, Helena, from a politically divided middle-class family falls in love with Dimitrios, a left-wing journalist marked as an enemy of the state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCaught between love and survival, Helena is forced into an impossible choice when British intelligence threatens her family.  Betrayal, imprisonment, and exile follow. In the brutal Averoff women’s prison and the prison islands beyond, Helena gives birth to a child who is taken from her by the state, one of thousands of children displaced by the civil war and its aftermath. When she is finally released, Greece has rebuilt itself through selective forgetting, and Helena is left carrying a grief that must remain unspoken for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the present, as Eva absorbs the weight of this inheritance, her own life reaches a turning point, including an unexpected pregnancy that arrives at the very moment her marriage may be ending.  Faced with the same questions that defined her grandmother’s life, Eva must decide whether to repeat a legacy shaped by fear and silence, or finally confront the truths history tried to erase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMeticulously researched and deeply moving, this is historical women’s fiction that restores the Greek Civil War to the heart of European history, revealing its intimate, generational cost.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dougie McHale","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49074809110779,"sku":"9781036722609","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_7b4f1961-49ba-4644-8b30-4d1f1f918792.jpg?v=1784164345","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-lost-daughters-9781036722609","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}