A Theatre for Dreamers

The Sunday Times bestseller

By: Polly Samson

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Paperback | 13 April 2021

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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. Her novel The Kindness was named Book of the Year by The Times and Observer. She has written lyrics for four Number One albums, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Industry Reviews

“Samson is an intensely sensual writer, conjuring up blue skies, the tang of wild herbs, the vivid splash of bougainvillea ... As good as a Greek holiday, and may be the closest we get this year”
Financial Times

“As dreamily nostalgic as Cohen's song Famous Blue Raincoat”
Alex Preston, Observer, New Year Highlights

“Sleazy, evocative, beautiful and entertaining”
Stuart Turton, Guardian Summer Reading Picks

“A thoroughly enjoyable drama of hedonism, enchantment and emotional beastliness”
Times Literary Supplement

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