Astute Quote by Peter Ho Davies
“The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life under the Greek junta—the steady drip of daily coercion—with an exacting empathy. In particular, her depiction of love under tyranny—by turns hesitant, furtive and liberating—is as astute as it is moving,”
![“No one [Islanders] trod easily upon the emotions of another where the sea licked everywhere against an endless shoreline. And this was excellent and poor at the same time-excellent because it meant most people took care, poor because it meant an inbreeding of the spirit, too much held in, regret…” quote by David Guterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d68/david-guterson-8456_quote_no-one-islanders-trod-easily-upon-the-em_1613381.jpg)
