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A Theatre for Dreamer

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER`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` Observer1960. 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

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