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by Eva Asprakis (Author)
WINNER of a 2025 International Impact Book Award. A 2025 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition Top 100 Notable Book. A 2025 BookLife Fiction Prize Quarterfinalist. A 2025 New York Book Festival General Fiction Award Honorable Mention. A Kirkus Reviews GET IT Book.
'A sharp and well-observed portrait of lives at the crossroads' Kirkus Reviews
'A rarity...Asprakis's skill at tapping into life's beauty and pain lingers long after the book's final page' the BookLife Prize
'A haunting and heartbreaking story' Rebekah Gregoriades for Cyprus Mail
'A compelling novel that deserves its place on your bookshelf' Annetta Benzar, author of I Am Cyprus
'Her most accomplished novel to date...confirms [Asprakis's] place as one of the most exciting writers of her generation' Matthew Phillip Long, author of Life Goes On Without You and Me
August, 2005.
High-school sweethearts Aristos and Agathi, and Petros and Melina, are the best of friends, until Aristos declares that he is leaving Cyprus for university.
Seven years later, Aristos returns with his new girlfriend, Wendy, to find Petros and Melina engaged, and Agathi still hung up on him.
As the estranged friends become reacquainted, their worlds come apart. All of them have wrongs to right, but with Cyprus hurtling towards the worst aviation disaster in its history, they might have less time than they think.
