Victoria Hislop the Wine-Dark Sea

During three years of brutal civil war in Greece, thousands of children were caught in the chaos that swept across the country.

Huge numbers were orphaned, many found themselves imprisoned alongside their mothers and others were left to fend for themselves.

The Wine-Dark Sea follows the travails of a mother, searching for both a daughter who has been kidnapped and taken behind the Iron Curtain and a boy who, unbeknown to her, has been sold into adoption