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Christy Lefteri



Christy Lefteri was born in London in 1980 to Greek Cypriot parents who moved to London in 1974. She completed a degree in English and a Masters in creative writing at Brunel University. She taught English to foreign students and then became a secondary school teacher before leaving to pursue a PhD and to write. She is also studying to become a psychotherapist.

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Average rating: 4.13 · 213,254 ratings · 19,595 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
4.16 avg rating — 177,631 ratings — published 2019 — 89 editions
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Songbirds
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The Book of Fire
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“Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo
tags: bees, hope, hope-quotes, inspirational, life-philosophy
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“But in Syria there is a saying: inside the person you know, there is a person you do not know.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo
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“Sometimes we create such powerful illusions, so that we do not get lost in the darkness.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo
tags: depression, grief, hope, life, loss, love, mental-illness, moving-on
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