A THEATRE FOR DREAMERS

‘A Theatre for Dreamers’ is a soporific summertime novel, set in the early '60s telling the story of young Erica who leaves England with her brother and boyfriend to the discover the Greek island Hydra for a summer of love, chaos and growing up!

The island of Hydra was popular in the ’60s for its bohemian sanctuary for famous artists and writers such as the celebrated Leonard Cohen from Canada, George Johnson from Australia and Axel Jensen from Norway. As well as the glitterati who followed them, it also drew international appeal with young people escaping their lives back home - all eager to explore new found freedoms of love, experimenting with drugs and enjoying a summer without compromise.

The story is presented by Erica who upon inheriting a fund from her mother leaves her home in London, journeying across Europe by car and then catching a ferry from Athens to Hydra to meet her mother’s friend and writer Charmian Clift. Erica arrives with her brother Bobby, new boyfriend Jimmy as well a coterie of new like-minded friends. We are immediately immersed into this unique eclectic community of artists who live cheek by yowl with the islanders which functions without electricity, cars and the glair of the modern world. Everyone is hoping Hydra will feed their artistic talents and imaginations.

The novel is bursting with stories re-imagining the dramas and scenes amongst the artists who fall in and out of love with each other. For readers who have enjoyed island hopping in the Mediterranean this is the novel that will take you there and more!