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Victoria Hislop
English author (born )
Victoria Hislop (néeHamson; born ) is an English author.[2]
Early life
Born in Bromley, Kent, she was raised in Tonbridge and attended Tonbridge Grammar School.[3] She studied English at St Hilda's College, Oxford,[4] and worked in publishing and as a journalist before becoming an author.[5]
Career
Her novel The Island () was a number-one bestseller in Britain, its success in part the result of having been selected by the Richard & Judy Book Club for their Summer Reads.
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To Nisi (The Island) was filmed as a TV series by the Greek TV channel MEGA.
In , she donated the short story "Aflame in Athens" to Oxfam's "Ox-Tales" project, four collections of British stories written by 38 authors.
Her story was published in the "Fire" collection.[6] Hislop has a particular affection for Greece. She visits the country often for research and other reasons, and has a second home on