Victoria Hislop, author of The Return, on tour October 2009

About Victoria

Victoria Hislop read English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and writes travel features for The Sunday Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday, House & Garden and Woman & Home.

Her first novel The Island was published by Headline Review and held the number 1 slot in the paperback charts for eight consecutive weeks, selling over a million copies in the UK.

The book has also been published in over twenty languages and has also been a number 1 bestseller in Greece.

Victoria was the Newcomer of the Year at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2007 and won the Richard & Judy Summer Read competition.

She lives in Kent, with her husband and their two children.

Visit Victoria’s website at www.victoriahislop.com.

About The Return

*Category: Fiction

*Format: Trade Paperback

*On Sale: October 6, 2009

*Price:$14.99

*ISBN: 9780061715419; ISBN10: 0061715417

Already a #1 bestseller in the UK, The Return is a captivating new novel of family, love, and betrayal set against a backdrop of civil war, flamenco, and fiery Spanish passion. The author of the beloved international bestseller The Island, Victoria Hislop now transports the reader to Granada, Spain, in a time of historic turmoil. The Return is a colorful and spellbinding saga of a family inspired by music and dance, only to be torn apart by fragile hearts and divided loyalties during the bitter war that brought the dictator Generalissimo Francisco Franco to power.

Victoria Hislop’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS

Monday, October 5th – Life and Times of a “New” New Yorker

Tuesday, October 6th – Starting Fresh

Thursday, October 8th – As Usual, I Need More Bookshelves

Tuesday, October 13th – Bending Bookshelf

Wednesday, October 14th – All About {n}

Thursday, October 15th – The Tome Traveller

Monday, October 19th – The Scholastic Scribe

Tuesday, October 20th – Dreadlock Girl Reads

Wednesday, October 21st – Write Meg

Thursday, October 22nd – Literate Housewife

Monday, October 26th – Diary of an Eccentric

Tuesday, October 27th – Drey’s Library

Wednesday, October 28th – Book Chatter and Other Stuff