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BY THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A THEATRE FOR DREAMERSAn Observer Book of the Year'Brilliant, tender and beautiful' ANDREW O'HAGAN 'A dark, sexy little masterpiece' JOJO MOYES 'An addictive, cleverly structured and intriguing relationship story of lies and flawed communication' SUNDAY TIMES Book of the Week 'Entices you to revel in its languid, beautifully written prose while demanding that you turn the page to discover the secrets it holds ' OBSERVER Paperback of the week Julian's fall begins the moment he sets eyes on Julia. Julia is married and eight years Julian's senior. Ignoring warnings from family and friends they give up all they have to be together. Their new life offers immense happiness, especially after their daughter Mira is born. But when Mira becomes terrifyingly ill, it is impossible for Julia to conceal the explosive secret that she has been keeping at the heart of their lives.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘Delicious’ Nigella Lawson‘Clever and beguiling’ Guardian‘Sublime and immersive’ Jojo MoyesErica is eighteen and ready for freedom. It’s the summer of 1960 when she lands on the sun-baked Greek island of Hydra where she is swept up in a circle of bohemian poets, painters, musicians, writers and artists, living tangled lives. Life on their island paradise is heady, dream-like, a string of seemingly endless summer days. But nothing can last forever.‘A surefire summer hit ... At once a blissful piece of escapism and a powerful meditation on art and sexuality’ Observer‘Heady armchair escapism ... An impressionistic, intoxicating rush of sensory experience’ Sunday Times‘If summer was suddenly like a novel, it would be like this one. Immaculate’ Andrew O’Hagan

"Sublime and immersive . . . If you wish you could disappear to a Greek island right now, I highly recommend." --Jojo Moyes, #1 bestselling author of Me Before You "This gorgeous, glimmering summer read is itself perfect summer: irresistible and deep, Samson's lyric sentences pulling you into unforgettable sunlight and shadow." --Amy Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of White Houses It's 1960, and the world teeters on the edge of cultural, political, sexual, and artistic revolution. On the Greek island of Hydra, a proto-commune of poets, painters, and musicians revel in dreams at the feet of their unofficial leaders, the writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston, troubled queen and king of bohemia. At the center of this circle of misfit artists are the captivating and inscrutable Axel Jensen, his magnetic wife Marianne Ihlen, and a young Canadian ingenue poet named Leonard Cohen. When eighteen-year-old Erica stumbles into their world, she's fresh off the boat from London with nothing but a bundle of blank notebooks and a burning desire to leave home in the wake of her mother's death. Among these artists, she will find an unraveling utopia where everything is tested--the nature of art, relationships, and her own innocence. Intoxicating and immersive, A Theater for Dreamers is a spellbinding tour-de-force about the beauty between na vet and cruelty, chaos and utopia, artist and muse--and about the wars waged between men and women on the battlegrounds of genius. Roiling with the heat of a Grecian summer, A Theater for Dreamers is, according to the Guardian, "a blissful piece of escapism" and "a surefire summer hit."

"Sublime and immersive . . . If you wish you could disappear to a Greek island right now, I highly recommend." --Jojo Moyes, #1 bestselling author of Me Before You"This gorgeous, glimmering summer read is itself perfect summer: irresistible and deep, Samson's lyric sentences pulling you into unforgettable sunlight and shadow." --Amy Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of White Houses It's 1960, and the world teeters on the edge of cultural, political, sexual, and artistic revolution. On the Greek island of Hydra, a proto-commune of poets, painters, and musicians revel in dreams at the feet of their unofficial leaders, the writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston, troubled queen and king of bohemia. At the center of this circle of misfit artists are the captivating and inscrutable Axel Jensen, his magnetic wife Marianne Ihlen, and a young Canadian ingenue poet named Leonard Cohen. When eighteen-year-old Erica stumbles into their world, she's fresh off the boat from London with nothing but a bundle of blank notebooks and a burning desire to leave home in the wake of her mother's death. Among these artists, she will find an unraveling utopia where everything is tested--the nature of art, relationships, and her own innocence. Intoxicating and immersive, A Theater for Dreamers is a spellbinding tour-de-force about the beauty between na vet and cruelty, chaos and utopia, artist and muse--and about the wars waged between men and women on the battlegrounds of genius. Roiling with the heat of a Grecian summer, A Theater for Dreamers is, according to the Guardian, "a blissful piece of escapism" and "a surefire summer hit."

Do you cover up or reveal it all; seek revenge or just reassurance; let the truth be naked as the day or cloaked in a night-time story? The men and women of Polly Samson's debut fiction all have stories to tell, pasts to forget, futures to forge. Manipulative or meek, used or using, all are aware of the power of truth, deception and little white lies to get what they want or sometimes what they deserve. Some are concerned with the economies of speech, those little 'kindnesses' which protect our loved ones but really ourselves; some investigate the warped logic which adults serve out to children to keep them 'innocent'; all are concerned with the beds we make and the lies we tell in them. . .

Quite unlike her fair stepsisters, Lizzie is dark and secretive: 'Just like your father' says her mother. But what was her father like? Photos of him are hidden away; snatches of overheard conversation between her mother and her stepfather deepen the mystery. Only her best friend Savannah - also abandoned by her father when she was a baby - knows what it feels like to wonder, to try and piece together an earlier story. But when events propel Lizzie alone to London she stops wondering and starts searching...Beautifully evoking the ache of childhood loss, the scrappy joys of chaotic families, and the hurt and relief of understanding, OUT OF THE PICTURE reveals Polly Samson's talent for laying bare the uncomfortable truths that lie just under the skin - in every family, in every secret.

In an English seaside town, lovers and children, young men and middle-aged women, weave in and out of each other's lives and stories.A mother is tormented by her daughter's tattoo; another only pretends to love her baby. A wife stalks her husband and his new lover; a broken egg through a letterbox tells a story that will not go away; the cat thinks he knows best. Threaded throughout are longings for love and poignant disappointments, surprising pleasures and temptations. Some will fall but some, like the small boy at the circus who sees his babysitter fly past on a trapeze wearing little more than a blue bra and spangles, will retain their feeling of awe.PERFECT LIVES, follows Polly Samson's rapturously received first collection, LYING IN BED. They are rueful, knowing, witty, poignant, bashful, bold. Her genius is in the nuance.

"Et mørkt, sexy lite mesterverk" Jojo Moyes "Det er lenge siden jeg har elsket en bok mer" Marian Keyes ÅRETS BOK The Observer & The Times Den enes gode gjerning, er den andres svik Julian faller pladask for den åtte år eldre Julia allerede første gang han ser henne. Julia er gift. De ignorerer alle advarsler fra familie og venner og gir opp alt de har for å være sammen. Det nye livet deres i London er preget av intens lykke, spesielt da deres etterlengtede datter Mira blir født. Det er først da Mira blir forferdelig syk, at det blir umulig for Julia å skjule sin mørke hemmelighet for ham. En hemmelighet hun har bevart i hjertet sitt i alle disse årene.

Leonard Cohenin ja Marianne Ihlenin (josta Cohen sai inspiraation lauluunsa So long, Marianne) rakkaustarina Hydran saarella kesällä 1960.Eletään vuotta 1960, ja maailma elää muutoksessa. Missään murros ei ole suurempi kuin Hydran saarella Kreikassa, jossa elää runoilijoiden, taiteilijoiden ja muusikoiden boheemi piiri. Sen ristiriitaista elämää hallitsee levoton kirjailijapariskunta Charmian Clift ja George Johnston. Piirissä rakentuu pian kolmiodraama, jonka kärkinä ovat puoleensa vetävä mutta tuhoisa kirjailija Axel Jensen, hänen lumoava vaimonsa Marianne Ihlen ja nuori kanadalainen runoilija nimeltään Leonard Cohen.Kaiken tämän keskelle saapuu teini-ikäinen Erica, jolla on matkassaan vain tyhjiä muistikirjoja ja suru äidistään. Hän asettuu tämän piirin laidalle ja katsoo kiinnostuneena ja levottomana, miten paratiisi hajoaa.Kreikan paahteessa ja häikäisevässä valossa tapahtuva Haaveilijoiden saari on loistava romaani utopistisista unelmista ja viattomuuden menettämisestä sekä naisten ja miesten sodasta nerouden taistelukentällä.Polly Samson (s. 1962) on englantilainen kirjailija ja sanoittaja. Haaveilijoiden saari on hänen kolmas romaaninsa. Samson on julkaissut myös kaksi novellikokoelmaa ja tehnyt sanoituksia neljälle ykkösalbumille, mukaan lukien Pink Floydin The Division Bell ja David Gilmourin On An Island. Vuonna 2018 hänet valittiin Kuninkaallisen kirjallisuusseuran (Royal Society of Literature) jäseneksi.

Leonard Cohenin ja Marianne Ihlenin (josta Cohen sai inspiraation lauluunsa So long, Marianne) rakkaustarina Hydran saarella kesällä 1960.Eletään vuotta 1960, ja maailma elää muutoksessa. Missään murros ei ole suurempi kuin Hydran saarella Kreikassa, jossa elää runoilijoiden, taiteilijoiden ja muusikoiden boheemi piiri. Sen ristiriitaista elämää hallitsee levoton kirjailijapariskunta Charmian Clift ja George Johnston. Piirissä rakentuu pian kolmiodraama, jonka kärkinä ovat puoleensa vetävä mutta tuhoisa kirjailija Axel Jensen, hänen lumoava vaimonsa Marianne Ihlen ja nuori kanadalainen runoilija nimeltään Leonard Cohen.Kaiken tämän keskelle saapuu teini-ikäinen Erica, jolla on matkassaan vain tyhjiä muistikirjoja ja suru äidistään. Hän asettuu tämän piirin laidalle ja katsoo kiinnostuneena ja levottomana, miten paratiisi hajoaa.Kreikan paahteessa ja häikäisevässä valossa tapahtuva Haaveilijoiden saari on loistava romaani utopistisista unelmista ja viattomuuden menettämisestä sekä naisten ja miesten sodasta nerouden taistelukentällä.Polly Samson (s. 1962) on englantilainen kirjailija ja sanoittaja. Haaveilijoiden saari on hänen kolmas romaaninsa. Samson on julkaissut myös kaksi novellikokoelmaa ja tehnyt sanoituksia neljälle ykkösalbumille, mukaan lukien Pink Floydin The Division Bell ja David Gilmourin On An Island. Vuonna 2018 hänet valittiin Kuninkaallisen kirjallisuusseuran (Royal Society of Literature) jäseneksi.