I discovered Victoria Hislop with his first novel about Greece. I had been seduced by this first book by it which the subject is very interesting, but sometimes lacking a bit of material. The construction of history that we pass from one character to another, leaving them sometimes for a hundred pages. It is therefore more difficult to identify them, and their description hardly embody and make them endearing. Nevertheless, I enjoyed discovering a subject of history I knew little, that of the Spanish Civil War which the author describes in detail the steps and dramas.
The other weak point of the novel is to make a formal abyss, the contemporary history of the first pages are a pretext to tell the story of the Spanish Civil War. From my point of view I think it is a bit artificial, and built quite clumsily on "forgotten island". "One Last Dance" remains a proper holiday book, but hardly seduced by its lack of thickness. Too bad!