A Theatre for Dreamers: The Sunday Times bestseller

Polly Samson

A Theatre for Dreamers: The Sunday Times bestseller
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
15 April 2020
Pages
368
ISBN
9781526600554

A Theatre for Dreamers: The Sunday Times bestseller

Polly Samson

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

A SUMMER READING PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY MAIL, FINANCIAL TIMES AND EVENING STANDARD

‘The Greek island of Hydra is the star of this novel about a young woman and a 1960s bohemian community’ SUNDAY TIMES, Summer Reading Pick 2020
‘Samson summons the vision and the reality in a beguiling, deeply evocative portrait of a vanished era’ GUARDIAN, Summer Reading Pick 2020 ‘It’s sleazy, evocative, beautiful and entertaining’ STUART TURTON, GUARDIAN, Summer Reading Pick 2020 ‘Heady armchair escapism … An impressionistic, intoxicating rush of sensory experience’ Sunday Times
‘Sublime and immersive … If you wish you could disappear to a Greek island right now, I highly recommend’ JOJO MOYES ‘A surefire summer hit … feels at once like a gift and an escape route’ Observer

  1. The world is dancing on the edge of revolution, and nowhere more so than on the Greek island of Hydra, where a circle of poets, painters and musicians live tangled lives, ruled by the writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston, troubled king and queen of bohemia. Forming within this circle is a triangle: its points the magnetic, destructive writer Axel Jensen, his dazzling wife Marianne Ihlen, and a young Canadian poet named Leonard Cohen.

Into their midst arrives teenage Erica, with little more than a bundle of blank notebooks and her grief for her mother. Settling on the periphery of this circle, she watches, entranced and disquieted, as a paradise unravels.

Burning with the heat and light of Greece, A Theatre for Dreamers is a spellbinding novel about utopian dreams and innocence lost - and the wars waged between men and women on the battlegrounds of genius.

An Observer Fiction Highlight 2020 ‘Could hardly have come at a better time … Samson recreates one heady summer there (the Greek island of Hydra) with impeccably ripening prose, all thyme-scented hills and cascading bougainvillea’ i paper ‘Beautiful’ DOLLY ALDERTON ‘Delicious’ NIGELLA LAWSON ‘Intoxicating’ Spectator ‘Oh my god, this book! I don’t have words to convey its brilliance’ MARIAN KEYES ‘A glorious novel’ KATE MOSSE ‘If summer was suddenly like a novel, it would be like this one’ ANDREW O'HAGAN ‘The best book I’ve read all year’ JOANNE HARRIS ‘Superb’ THOMAS KENEALLY A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER (APRIL 2020)

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