bought from Bookdepository for my reading group.

I've always said that if I can be reincarnated, I would like to come back as a tree.
Something sturdy like an oak or a chestnut.

I think this is the first time I've read a book with a tree as a narrator. It is informative, tragic, emotional, warm, mythical and historical, a little disjointed perhaps but that is the only (minor) fault I can find.
Not wanting to tell the story or write any spoilers, I'll just say that maybe, by the next generation, we can again talk about Cypriots rather than Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots. I liked the way the characters referred to themselves as "islanders".

Hay Festival interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZIrKkohSCk

on loan to Susan