About the Book: Last Letter From Istanbul
Before the Occupation, Nurs city was a tapestry of treasures: the Grand Bazaar
alive with colour, trinkets and spices; saffron sunsets melting into the black
waters of the Bosphorus; the sweet fragrance of the fig trees dancing on the
summer breeze. Now the shadow of war hangs over the city, and Nur lives for the
protection of a young boy with a terrible secret. Stumbling through the streets,
carrying the embroideries that have become her livelihood, she avoids the gazes
of the Allied soldiers. Survival is everything. When Nur chances upon George
Monroe, a medical officer in the British Army,