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Ghost Flight: A Compelling Tale of Friendship, Secrets and Post-Conflict Cyprus from the Award-Winning Author of Thirty-Eight Days of Rain

by Eva Asprakis

Friendship under a looming shadow

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Winner, 2025 International Impact Book Award

    The metadata states that the book won a 2025 International Impact Book Award.

  • Editorial selection

    2025 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Award Top 100 Notable Book

    The book is described as a Top 100 Notable Book in the 2025 award selection.

  • Critical praise

    Kirkus Reviews: “A sharp and well-observed portrait”

    Kirkus Reviews describes the book as a sharp, well-observed portrait; the source also includes the parenthetical...

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Friendship under a looming shadow

Set in Cyprus in August 2005, the novel brings four former close friends back into one another’s lives after Aristos returns with his new girlfriend. The reunion reveals how the years have left their relationships unevenly changed: Petros and Melina are engaged, while Agathi remains attached to Aristos. Their personal history unfolds against the approaching threat of a major aviation disaster, linking unresolved conflicts with a sharply limited window for setting things right. The story’s central tensions lie in friendship, lingering attachment, and the consequences of choices made across time, within a post-conflict Cypriot setting.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in friendship shaped by separation and reunion.
  • For readers seeking fiction set in Cyprus and attentive to its post-conflict context.
  • For readers who enjoy relationship-centered stories with an impending disaster in the background.

Themes

Friendship and estrangementMemory and lingering attachmentConsequences and reconciliationPost-conflict Cyprus

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Book overview

WINNER of a 2025 International Impact Book Award. A 2026 Indies Today Award Finalist. A 2025 BookLife Fiction Prize Quarterfinalist. A 2025 New York Book Festival General Fiction Award Honorable Mention. A 2025 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Award Top 100 Notable Book.

 

'A sharp and well-observed portrait of lives at the crossroads'Kirkus Reviews (GET IT Verdict)

 

'A rarity...Asprakis's skill at tapping into life's beauty and pain lingers long after the book's final page' the BookLife Prize

 

'A haunting and heartbreaking story' Rebekah Gregoriades for Cyprus Mail

 

'A tender journey through memory...showcasing once again [Asprakis's] deep understanding of the fragile places inside us' Dinos Toumazos for Agora Dialogue

 

'A must-read for anyone who loves stories of deep friendships, fractured by time and circumstance...showing how the choices we make leave lasting imprints on others'IndieReader

 

'A compelling novel that deserves its place on your bookshelf' Annetta Benzar, author of I Am Cyprus

 

August, 2005.

 

High-school sweethearts Aristos and Agathi, and Petros and Melina, are the best of friends, until Aristos declares that he is leaving Cyprus for university.

 

Seven years later, Aristos returns with his new girlfriend, Wendy, to find Petros and Melina engaged, and Agathi still hung up on him.

 

As the estranged friends become reacquainted, their worlds come apart. All of them have wrongs to right, but with Cyprus hurtling towards the worst aviation disaster in its history, they might have less time than they think.

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