{"product_id":"9781526600561-secondhand-a-theatre-for-dreamers-the-sunday-times-bestseller","title":"A Theatre for Dreamers: The Sunday Times bestseller","description":"THE  SUNDAY TIMES  BESTSELLER \n\n A SUMMER READING PICK IN THE  GUARDIAN ,  SUNDAY TIMES ,  THE TIMES ,  DAILY MAIL ,  FINANCIAL TIMES  AND  EVENING STANDARD \n \n '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  \n 'Samson summons the vision and the reality in a beguiling, deeply evocative portrait of a vanished era'  GUARDIAN , Summer Reading Pick 2020 \n 'It's sleazy, evocative, beautiful and entertaining' STUART TURTON,  GUARDIAN , Summer Reading Pick 2020 \n 'Heady armchair escapism ... An impressionistic, intoxicating rush of sensory experience'  Sunday Times  \n 'Sublime and immersive ... If you wish you could disappear to a Greek island right now, I highly recommend' JOJO MOYES \n 'A surefire summer hit ... feels at once like a gift and an escape route'  Observer \n\n1960. 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. \n\nInto 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. \n\nBurning 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.\n \n \nAn  Observer  Fiction Highlight 2020 \n '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 \n 'Beautiful' DOLLY ALDERTON\n'Delicious' NIGELLA LAWSON \n 'Intoxicating'  Spectator \n 'Oh my god, this book! I don't have words to convey its brilliance' MARIAN KEYES \n 'A glorious novel' KATE MOSSE\n'If summer was suddenly like a novel, it would be like this one' ANDREW O'HAGAN \n 'The best book I've read all year' JOANNE HARRIS \n 'Superb' THOMAS KENEALLY \n A  SUNDAY TIMES  TOP TEN BESTSELLER (APRIL 2020)","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48548834902235,"sku":"9781526600561-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/33fc13ed-e415-4bfe-ad09-1372f2e2c814.jpg?v=1775141418","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781526600561-secondhand-a-theatre-for-dreamers-the-sunday-times-bestseller","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}