{"id":4313,"date":"2012-12-03T17:50:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T17:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.victoriahislop.com\/?p=4313"},"modified":"2016-09-15T17:42:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T17:42:43","slug":"4313","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/4313\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Dance &#038; Other Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/www.victoriahislop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Last-Dance.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Last-Dance\" src=\"\/\/www.victoriahislop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Last-Dance.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"515\" \/><\/a><em>Intricate, beautifully observed and with a painter&#8217;s eye for imagery, in these stories Hislop evokes Greece, its people, its customs and traditions with a sensitivity that reveals her deep knowledge of not just the place but also the human condition.<strong><br \/>\nSunday Express<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A new collection of short stories by Victoria Hislop*<\/p>\n<p>In ten powerful stories, Victoria Hislop takes us through the streets of Athens and into the tree-lined squares of Greek villages. As she evokes their distinct atmosphere, she brings vividly to life a host of unforgettable characters, from a lonesome priest to battling brothers, and from an unwanted stranger to a groom troubled by music and memory.<\/p>\n<p>These bittersweet tales of love and loyalty, of separation and reconciliation, captured in Victoria Hislop&#8217;s unique voice, will stay with you long after you reach the end.<\/p>\n<h6>(*Three of these stories were previously published in Victoria Hislop&#8217;s ebook collection, <a title=\"One Cretan Evening\" href=\"\/?page_id=3180\"><em>One Cretan Evening<\/em><\/a>.)<\/h6>\n<div>\n<p>Buy:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"bookstore-ind\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780755396276?aff=\" target=\"_blank\">IndieBound<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/0755396278\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon UK<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intricate, beautifully observed and with a painter&#8217;s eye for imagery, in these stories Hislop evokes Greece, its people, its customs and traditions with a sensitivity that reveals her deep knowledge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,446,126],"tags":[29,47,127,260],"class_list":["post-4313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","category-news","category-the-last-dance","tag-books","tag-short-stories","tag-stories","tag-the-last-dance","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}