A Theatre for Dreamers
by Polly Samson
Narrated by Polly Samson
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Pub Date 25 Jun 2020 | Archive Date 20 Aug 2020
W.F. Howes Ltd | Whole Story Audiobooks
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Description
The Sunday Times best seller and an Observer Fiction Highlight 2020
Featuring bonus track and original music from Pink Floyd's David Gilmour.
1960: 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.
Advance Praise
'Sublime and immersive . If you wish you could disappear to a Greek island right now, I highly recommend' Jojo Moyes
'Heady armchair escapism ... An impressionistic, intoxicating rush of sensory experience' Sunday Times
'I don't have words to convey its brilliance' Marian Keyes
'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
Available Editions
| EDITION | Audiobook, Unabridged |
| ISBN | 9781004000326 |
| PRICE | £14.87 (GBP) |
| DURATION | 9 Hours, 57 Minutes |
Featured Reviews
Sam W, Reviewer
This audiobook is the closest thing I will get to a foreign holiday this year. Erica leaves behind her stultifying homelife in London and escapes to the island of Hydra. She is looking both for a freer kind of life and some answers about the mother she barely knew. Hydra is a paradise of sorts. It is full of people escaping from the world. The most captivating and talented of which is her mother's old friend, Charmian Clift. As it is 1960, Charmian and the other women on the island spend most of their time stroking male egos. It reads as a retelling of the greek myths. There are great temptations, lives lost and scenes of beauty with the most beautiful people. It's a must.
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