The Summer Will Come Book to Movie Project
65 by Soulla Christodoulou Hello and welcome to this week’s blog which is an extremely exciting one for me and a dream come true as The Summer Will Come begins its journey from book to movie! I have been working with a scriptwriter, who read the book and loved it. With her background in film-making […]
Parikiaki and New Book Based on Real Experiences of Families Forced to Leave Cyprus in the 1950s
303 Article sourced from Cyprus Mail Hello and welcome to this week’s post which may look like a deja-vu (well, it actually just might be!) and another newspaper feature in the Parikiaki — one of the most popular Greek Cypriot newspapers in the UK. I was sitting up in bed reading one night and my […]
Cyprus Mail and Living To See a Better Tomorrow
260 Feature article by Alix Norman, Cyprus Mail Hello and welcome to this week’s blog post which is a particularly happy one for me personally. My book, The Summer Will Come, has been featured in the Cyprus Mail! To say it has been an absolute whirlwind of an experience is an understatement. Alix Norman, Chief […]
Cyprus, Inspiration and The Summer Will Come
166 Collaborative piece by @thecypriotstory (Instagram) and Soulla Christodoulou Hello and welcome! I was absolutely delighted when @thecypriotstory – a community account on Instagram for One Cyprus contacted me for a story to support their feed dedicated to, “One island, one people, one culture.” This is what I came up with and I hope you […]
The Summer Will Come Book Excerpt
274 by Soulla Christodoulou This is a short excerpt from a school scene in the village of Kato Lefkara, the home of Elena, her twin brother Andreas and their mother Evangelia. I’ve chosen to share this with you as it shows the children’s innocence and excitement about moving to London. “It was the day of […]
The Summer Will Come Book Excerpt
182 by Soulla Christodoulou This is a particularly emotional and heart-wrenching scene in The Summer Will Come. It comes at a point in the book where tensions are magnified as civilians are helplessly entangled and embroiled in the increasing animosity between the British Troops occupying the island and the EOKA freedom fighters. “As she neared […]
The Summer Will Come chosen as a Year of Learning Festival Book Club Read by Barnet Libraries
80 The Summer Will Come was chosen as a Year of Learning Festival Book Club Read by Barnet Libraries, London, and last night I attended a book club ‘Meet The Author’ event to meet the readers and to talk about my writing. It was over a year ago I contacted the Library Service making enquiries […]
What inspired me to write The Summer Will Come
38 Hi! Welcome to this week’s post. I often get asked how I think of writing the stories I write and more recently, what inspired me to write The Summer Will Come. I’ve had many enriching experiences in my life which have opened my eyes to new things about myself, people and the world. But […]
Review for The Summer Will Come from Cathy at What Cathy Read Next
35 Huge thanks and gratitude to Cathy of What Cathy Read Next for her wonderfully perceptive and in-depth review of my newly released novel The Summer Will Come, available on AMAZON. 4 * AMAZON REVIEW – posted on 20th March 2018 Emotional, engaging story set in 1950s Cyprus and London “The Summer Will Come tells […]