The Book of Fire

Christy Lefteri is a writer of huge power, who writes with great delicacy and urgency, making us see the world around us through fresh eyes -- Heather Morris, international bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz Christy Lefteri's beautiful new novel, The Book of Fire, is a compelling story of love, loss, and redemption in the face of unimaginable tragedy. As with The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Christy transports the reader to a once lush and now destroyed world, where a community-and a mother-- must fight to regain what has been lost. Uniquely crafted and full of both stunning imagery and human emotion, The Book of Fire is a story that will long remain in the reader's mind -- Kristen Hannah This is a sweeping, elegant story, set against the backdrop of the Greek landscape. Moving and thought-provoking, it exposes the damage caused by human-greed, but also celebrates the power of human resilience * Sunday Express * Lefteri fine-tunes her poignant, intimate family storytelling in The Book of Fire. A tiny island and its Anglo-Greek family are similarly ravaged by a deliberate fire, the starting point for this novel reflecting on trauma, redemption and recovery . . . The Book of Fire's climate-crisis subtext is testament to Lefteri's increasing reputation for crafting international bestsellers with real contemporary meaning. * Observer * A compelling, at times anguished, at-a-sitting exploration of trauma, complicity, justice and how to live in our rapacious, heating age * Daily Mail * An emotive, character driven novel which demonstrates the impact - both physically and emotionally - that such a major event has on one family. Lefteri's evocative tale leaves you questioning how you would deal with such loss, and the decisions you would make in the wake of such a disaster * Independent * The Book of Fire is the work of a seasoned and wise storyteller who is as masterfully attuned to the nuances of trauma as she is adept at uncovering hope and resilience. Christy Lefteri is at the height of her powers with this radiant and moving novel -- Adrienne Brodeur, bestselling author of Wild Game and Little Monsters The Book of Fire is a wonderfully engrossing and moving novel that explores with great tenderness the need for answers in the face of terrible loss and the desire for recovery from environmental devastation -- Peter Stott, author of Hot Air

Brought up in London, Christy Lefteri is the child of Cypriot refugees. Her novel, The Beekeeper of Aleppo, is an international bestseller, selling well over a million copies worldwide and published in over 40 countries. The Beekeeper of Aleppo won The Aspen Literary Prize, runner up for The Dayton Literary Prize and won the Prix de l'Union Interallie for Best Foreign novel in France. It is currently being performed as a play, adapted by Nesrin Alrefaai, and Matthew Spangler for The Nottingham Playhouse, and touring the UK. Songbirds, her follow up novel, was a Sunday Times and international bestseller.