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A Theatre for Dreamers
- Author
- Polly Samson
- Narrator
- Polly Samson
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Publish Date
- 25 June 2020
- Run Time
- 9 hours 54 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Romance
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The Sunday Times bestseller and an Observer Fiction highlight 2020
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.
'Delicious' NIGELLA LAWSON
'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
Narrated by Polly Samson
© 2020 Polly Samson
All music by David Gilmour
“Yes, I Have Ghosts” Lyrics by Polly Samson
Performed by David Gilmour with Romany Gilmour
The moral right of the author has been asserted
(p) 2020 Polly Samson under license to W.F. Howes Ltd
All music (p) 2020 David Gilmour Music Ltd.
All songs Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd
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Details
- Author
- Polly Samson
- Narrator
- Polly Samson
- Duration
- 9 hours 54 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 June 2020
- ISBN
- 9781004000326
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Genre
- Romance
Synopsis
Featuring bonus track and original music from Pink Floyd's David GilmourThe Sunday Times bestseller and an Observer Fiction highlight 20201960. 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.'Delicious' NIGELLA LAWSON'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 KENEALLYNarrated by Polly Samson © 2020 Polly SamsonAll music by David Gilmour“Yes, I Have Ghosts” Lyrics by Polly SamsonPerformed by David Gilmour with Romany Gilmour The moral right of the author has been asserted(p) 2020 Polly Samson under license to W.F. Howes LtdAll music (p) 2020 David Gilmour Music Ltd.All songs Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd
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