Victoria Hislop - The Wine-Dark Sea

The much-loved author, whose books have sold over 10 million copies worldwide, brings us a riveting tale of families flung across continents amid the Greek civil war and a determined mother who refuses to let war destroy hers. When Government soldiers come to Kalopetra, Fotini is nursing her newborn second child. She urges her daughter to hide with the older children as she and the other women are herded onto trucks. Will they ever meet again? Talking to Julia Wheeler