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I enjoyed this book despite the slow start. The characters and the setting were brought to life with beautiful writing. This was my first Lucy Foley book but it won't be my last.Thank you Netgalley for a lovely read.
Some lovely writing in this. Really gave a look into British occupied Turkey just after the war. Slow burning plot which I felt could have been more concise
Foley has an exquisite talent for evoking the very essence of place and time; her delineation of setting is lyrical, eloquent and she uses it beautifully to illuminate a facet of history I was heretofore totally unaware of. But a story that should in theory have been compelling felt otherwise entirely aimless -Last Letter from Istanbul is a slow moving, meandering slog that never achieves anything. (Also, is the title an irrelevant nod to Last Letters from Stalingrad?)To get to the crux of thing...
Described as ‘an epic story that vividly captures the heartbreaking turmoil of forbidden love, against a richly drawn backdrop of a legendary city steeped in history and myth.’ Last Letter from Istanbul is a book that encouraged me to carry out a little bit of research, as the history of Turkey is something I know very little about. In 1921, Istanbul, as we now know it, was known as Constantinople, a city that has seen so many changes over the centuries, a city steeped in a history that carri...
This was my final book of 2018, and the best read to end the year.Pg 25 'Sometimes, now, the old life seems as remote as one read about in a book. But this afternoon it seems very close at hand, an assault of memory.' We meet Nur, a young woman living in Constantinople- her beloved Istanbul- a city brutally overtaken by the Allied Forces. She yearns for the life she lost and is reminded daily of the changes: she sees the Allied soldiers laughing and taunting her fellow people. She is surrounded...
Being a fan of Victoria Hislop’s books I was looking forward to reading Last Letter from Istanbul by Lucy Foley. Set in Constantinople in 1921, it tells the tale of a forbidden love between Nur and Medical Officer George Monroe. I started reading this on Sunday afternoon. It’s an easy read and I couldn’t put it down. It’s well written and so descriptive you could almost imagine yourself there tasting the local delicacies or feeling the breeze from the Bosphorus.I thoroughly enjoyed this book and...
This is a story of Istanbul/Constantinople in 1921 during the Allied Occupation. A sad, but beautiful ode to the people who claimed it as their own, and those who occupied it after the war. It is about a young teacher who saved one of her Armenian pupils from genocide, took care of her elderly grandmother and mother, and learnt the hard truths of what war really was from all sides. She had to come to terms with some truths that was hard to stomach...and forgive. The ending elevates this book to
Last Letter from Istanbul written by Lucy Foley for me was a good read, slow at the start but I would recommend you stick with it. It had to be slow at the beginning to show the reader the characters in a very special way.I loved how each character was developed and as they narrated their own story it was one which really opened up the heart to so many feelings of love and in so many cases dispair. Lucy Foley truly has created a beautiful read and I loved it so much I have since purchased the au...
Occasionally it’s the author’s writing style that sweeps the reader to a particular time and place. Such is the case with Last Letter from Istanbul where Lucy Foley’s lyrical, evocative imaginings of life in 1921 in Istanbul (renamed Constantinople by the hated allied occupiers) whisks the reader to dusty streets, to the peaceful shade of quiet gardens, to a life changed forever by war. Nur is a resourceful young widow who, having been ousted from her life of luxury and still grieving for her be...
