Aphrodite's War

by Andrea Busfield

The island is divided, but one man's love will never be compromised …

Cyprus, 1955 – a guerrilla war is raging and four Greek brothers are growing up to the familiar sounds of exploding bombs and sniper fire.

Determined to avenge the death of his elder brother and to win the heart of his beloved Praxi, young Loukis joins a cell of schoolboy terrorists operating in the mountains. But when his cohorts blow themselves up in a freak accident, he returns home in shock, yearning for the warm embrace of his family – and of his sweetheart.

But his adored Praxi is now married to someone else, and playing at her feet is a young toddler…

(From Publisher).

Andrea Busfield is a British journalist. Whilst covering the fall of the Taliban for the News of the World she fell in love with Afghanistan and made it her home. She is now the deputy editor of the Gulf Times. This is her first novel.

Compelling story and characters.