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 eyesHeather 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 mindKristen 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 resilienceSunday 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