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*Don’t miss Lucy Foley’s Sunday Times bestselling crime debut, THE HUNTING PARTY, available to buy now.* ‘This will sweep you away for the summer. Lucy Foley blends a rich history, haunting secrets and a timeless love story’ Santa Montefiore, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Deverill series ISTANBUL, 1921 Before the Occupation, Nur’s city was a tapestry of treasures: the Grand Bazaar alive with colour, trinkets and spices; saffron sunsets melting into the black waters of the Bosphorus; the sweet fragrance of the fig trees dancing on the summer breeze . . . Now the shadow of war hangs over the city, and Nur lives for the protection of a young boy with a terrible secret. Stumbling through the streets, carrying the embroideries that have become her livelihood, she avoids the gazes of the Allied soldiers. Survival is everything. When Nur chances upon George Monroe, a medical officer in the British Army, it is easy to hate him. Yet the lines between enemy and friend grow fainter. She and the boy would both be at risk. Nur knows that she cannot afford to fall – impossibly and dangerously – in love . . .

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Praise for Lucy Foley: `A seductive love tale' Sunday Times Style `Glamour, secrets and danger makes this a gorgeous summer read' Woman & Home `Sultry escapist fiction at its best - 5*' HEAT `The perfect summer read... Gorgeously compelling' Good Housekeeping `Oozes glamour... Lush, romantic and cleverly crafted - a brainy beach read to relish' Sunday Mirror `I loved THE INVITATION . . . I could dive into this book. A beautifully complex and vivid story, full of repressed longing and secrets. An absolutely enchanting tale' Lucinda Riley `A seductive love tale' Sunday Times Style `Full of mystery and long-reaching shadows of the past . . . richly drawn and compelling' Rosanna Ley

Praise for Lucy Foley: `A seductive love tale' Sunday Times Style `Glamour, secrets and danger makes this a gorgeous summer read' Woman & Home `Sultry escapist fiction at its best - 5*' HEAT `The perfect summer read... Gorgeously compelling' Good Housekeeping `Oozes glamour... Lush, romantic and cleverly crafted - a brainy beach read to relish' Sunday Mirror `I loved THE INVITATION . . . I could dive into this book. A beautifully complex and vivid story, full of repressed longing and secrets. An absolutely enchanting tale' Lucinda Riley `A seductive love tale' Sunday Times Style `Full of mystery and long-reaching shadows of the past . . . richly drawn and compelling' Rosanna Ley

`Lucy Foley's gorgeous elegant prose and the way she conjures up post war Constantinople makes this a beautiful, evocative and memorable read' Lucinda Riley `An evocative and sensitively written novel about ill-fated love, sacrifice and the violent effects of war' S Magazine

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Lucy Foley studied English Literature at Durham and UCL universities and worked for several years as a fiction editor in the publishing industry, before leaving to write full-time. Lucy's debut thriller, The Hunting Party, was an instant Sunday Times and Irish Times bestseller, and was inspired by a particularly remote spot in Scotland that fired her imagination. Lucy is also the author of three historical novels, which have been translated into sixteen languages. Her journalism has appeared in ES Magazine, Sunday Times Style, Grazia and more.

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