Eve of Deconstruction
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"What an excellent story, ...totally unputdownable and engrossing, with great twists. All in all a gripping story line and yet another great novel."
"This novel wasn't only interesting for its storyline and plot twist...which kept me up half the night as it reached its climax - but it gives one a very important and insightful look at Greece's recent history, in a semi-fictional way. I like novels of historical fiction - and this wove between past and present. It helped me to understand some of the reasons why Greece is the nation it is today."
"This book doesn't disappoint. It has a great storyline with excellent characters, and there is a brilliant twist towards the end.
I definitely recommend it. I look forward to reading more by this author."
Novel No. 3. Chippenham UK, present day. Eve Watkins is a fairly average modern woman in her early forties with two teenage kids, a loving husband with a steady job and career of her own. It looks like her daily life is fairly uneventful, yet secure.
Following the death of her mother, however, she discovers things about her own past that come as a complete surprise to Eve. These lead her eventually out to a small village in mainland Greece, where developments soon lead to her life beginning to deconstruct before her.
Ought she to have let sleeping dogs lie?
Yet she knows she has to find out. She has to know who she really is. Whatever the cost.
This epic saga will doubtless invite comparisons with the novels of Victoria Hislop. Its journey into one woman's past heritage will have you gripped until the very last page.
Where the action is...
John explains: "Much of the action takes place in mainland Greece in the late 1960's and early 1970's, a time when electricity and running water were still fairly new phenomena to many rural villages. Villagers eked out a living from the land, and the nearest doctor was often several villages away. The story reaches its emotion-charged crescendo, in a small village called Sorona.
"Sorona is 100% fictional and I've placed it in the mountains to the north of the real town of Lamia in central mainland Greece, where there is also quite a lot of action in the story. The descriptions of Sorona are, however, based on the real village of Asklipio near my home on Rhodes and thus, if the reader visits Asklipio after having read the book, they'll probably be able to envisage even more clearly many of the scenes in the story.
"n the first two novels the very real village of Lindos featured heavily. In "Eve of Deconstruction" though, I've moved the story further afield, whilst also retaining a deeply Greece-oriented theme to the story. Whilst there will be readers of the first two who perhaps came to them initially owing to their general interest in all things "Lindian" and perhaps they were hoping that the new book would retain that content location-wise, I hope you'll appreciate the need to incorporate new people and places.
"Hopefully the story will be more than enough to keep you involved if you're a bit of a Rhodes fan. The entire story does revolve around someone searching for their Greek roots and thus as a consequence the Grecophile will still find much to satisfy their longing for all things Greek in this book.
"As a consequence of the fact that Sorona is based on Asklipio, I did a walking tour of the village on January 24th 2015 in order to snap some photographs that may also help the reader to imbibe the atmosphere of Sorona when they're reading the story in "Eve of Deconstruction". All 17 of these photos (only three are shown here) can be viewed on the Facebook page HERE."
