A THEATRE FOR DREAMERS by Polly Samson (Bloomsbury £8.99, 368 pp)
A THEATRE FOR DREAMERS
by Polly Samson (Bloomsbury £8.99, 368 pp)
In the 1960s, the Greek island of Hydra became a haven for artists and writers.
The most famous was the musician Leonard Cohen, who found a muse in Marianne Ihlen.
In 1960 the heroine of Polly Samson's fifth novel, 18-year-old Erica, arrives on Hydra with her handsome boyfriend Jimmy, a would-be poet.
On her deathbed, Erica's mother urged her to ‘have some adventures', confirming her advice with a legacy of £1,000 and a book by Hydra resident Charmian Clift, who becomes a mentor to Erica.
But amid luscious descriptions of Hydra's sun-drenched streets, hydraclubbioknikokex7njhwuahc2l67lfiz7z36md2jvopda7nchid.onion Samson's novel is sharply observant of the personal price paid by the island's female muses, so ‘beautifully trained in the arts that facilitate good writing'.
A DOUBLE LIFE by Charlotte Philby (The Borough Press £8.99, 480 pp)
A DOUBLE LIFE
by Charlotte Philby (The Borough Press £8.
Report this page