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 […]
Author Interview on Pencils & Lipstick
167 Podcast – Kat Caldwell interviews Soulla Christodoulou Welcome to this week’s blog post where I am sharing a podcast interview I did recently on Pencils & Lipstick with Kat Caldwell. Kat and I talked about my writing journey and how I came to be a writer with three novels, a short story and a […]
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 […]
The Summer Will Come, a Greek excerpt.
129 Translation by Maria Christodoulou Hello and welcome. I can’t believe it is December already. I don’t feel ready for Christmas at all and with the changing guidelines around Covid-19 I am feeling more than a little agitated. So, a little escape with The Summer Will Come in Greek is just what I need and […]
The Summer Will Come, a Greek excerpt.
154 Post by Soulla Christodoulou Hello. How are you all? This is the second little book excerpt in Greek I’m sharing with you. I hope you enjoy it and I hope too that it will inspire you to read The Summer Will Come in English in advance of the Greek version being published. Maria Christodoulou, […]
The Summer Will Come, a Greek Excerpt
137 Translation by Maria Christodoulou This week I am sharing a short excerpt from my novel The Summer Will Come in Greek. Maria Christodoulou, a Teaching Assistant and a Greek Language Teacher of A Level Greek at the Hellenic School of Sheffield has been working on the translation since June 2020. It’s a long process […]
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 and Cyprus Independence Day
166 The Summer Will Come and Cyprus Independence Day… a book which highlights Cyprus’ fight for freedom, from British rule, and a day which marks and celebrates the declaration of Cyprus’ independence. It was on this day on 1st October 1960 that Cyprus Independence Day was and still is celebrated across the Republic of Cyprus […]