The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou

**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2023**

THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME.

London, 1954. Zina Pavlou, a Cypriot grandmother, waits quietly in the custody of the Metropolitan poli…

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