Theatre for Dreamers by Polly Samson

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

‘Delicious’ Nigella Lawson
‘Clever and beguiling’ Guardian
‘Sublime and immersive’ Jojo Moyes

Erica is eighteen and ready for freedom. It’s the summer of 1960 when she lands on the sun-baked Greek island of Hydra where she is swept up in a circle of bohemian poets, painters, musicians, writers and artists, living tangled lives. Life on their island paradise is heady, dream-like, a string of seemingly endless summer days. But nothing can last forever.

‘A surefire summer hit … At once a blissful piece of escapism and a powerful meditation on art and sexuality’ Observer
‘Heady armchair escapism … An impressionistic, intoxicating rush of sensory experience’ Sunday Times
‘If summer was suddenly like a novel, it would be like this one. Immaculate’ Andrew O’Hagan

About the Author:

Polly Samson is the author of two short story collections and two previous novels. Her work has been shortlisted for numerous prizes, translated into several languages and has been dramatised on BBC Radio 4. A Theatre for Dreamers debuted at number 2 on the Sunday Times bestseller list. She has written lyrics for four Number One albums, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Most recently Polly Samson has written introductions to Muswell Press’s 2021 reissues of Charmian Clift’s Mermaid Singing and Peel Me a Lotus.

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15 Apr 2021
 

A Theatre for Dreamers: The Sunday Times bestseller by Polly Samson ISBN 9781526600592