Another Interview With Eva Asprakis, Author Of Ghost Flight

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Last year, we here at What We Reading had the opportunity to speak to Eva Asprakis, the award-winning author of Thirty-Eight Days of Rain. Having won acclaim in the wake of the book’s success, we decided to check in with Eva to run through how her year has been, and celebrate the release of her latest work, Ghost Flight, a pulsating and big-hearted tale set against a backdrop of the 2005 Helios Airways 522 disaster.

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Thanks for speaking to us again, Eva! First off, give the readers a brief picture of who you are, and what your writing journey has looked like so far.

I’m Eva Asprakis, an award-winning contemporary fiction author based in Cyprus. My books, Love and Only Water (2022), Thirty-Eight Days of Rain (2024) and Ghost Flight (2025), explore complex family dynamics, sexuality and womanhood, and the search for identity and belonging.

Last time we spoke, we were celebrating the launch of your book, Thirty-Eight Days of Rain. Tell us what’s been happening with you since then!

In the second half of last year, I won the 2024 Ink Book Prize for Fiction with Thirty-Eight Days of Rain, ran a ‘Writing as Remedy’ webinar for World Childless Week, and was named by Ever-Growing as an Emerging Author to Watch in 2025.

In the first half of this year, I served as a judge for the 2025 Ink Book Prize for Fiction, and became a member of the Technical Committee on Culture in Cyprus. I also released my third novel, Ghost Flight, which has enjoyed successful launches across Cyprus and Greece.

You’ve just finished your next work, Ghost Flight. Tell us what it’s about, and how the process of writing it was.

Ghost Flight is set in Larnaca, Cyprus, in 2005. It is the story of two couples, who are also friends, trying to piece their relationships back together in the wake of one character’s long-awaited return to Cyprus – with a British girlfriend. The book follows these characters as they try to reconcile their personal and political pasts with the lives they are living now, and with the futures they may or may not want to have. Looming over all this is the Helios Airways Flight 522 disaster, which took place in August of that year.

Writing Ghost Flight was a process of me asking, and then seeking to answer, some questions about love, loss, and forgiveness. I was curious as to how those elements could, depending on how they came together, form the basis for a life either fulfilling or incomplete.

What is the biggest goal you’d like to achieve with Ghost Flight?

Internationally, my hope is that Ghost Flight will bring interest to Cyprus, which is more than just its beaches, and to Cypriot stories, which do not all begin and end with the conflict in 1974. We have other, ongoing tales here, which I believe are worthy of telling the world.

What would you say is the biggest lesson you’ve learned about either yourself or the writing world in the last year?

The biggest lesson I have learned in the last year, on every front, is that there are no right or wrong choices, just the choices we make and their outcomes. This can be a daunting idea, but also a liberating one.

Finally, what’s next on the horizon for you?

I am currently working on my fourth novel, which I hope to release in 2026.

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Follow Eva and all of her work on Instagram and on her website! You can also find her previous interview with us here!

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