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Description
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Delicious' Nigella Lawson
'Clever and beguiling' Guardian
'Sublime and immersive' Jojo Moyes
Erica 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
Product details
| Published | 18 Apr 2021 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 368 |
| ISBN | 9781526600592 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Circus |
| Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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A surefire summer hit ... Feels at once like a gift and an escape route ... At once a blissful piece of escapism and a powerful meditation on art and sexuality – just the book to bring light into these dark days
Observer
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Brings to life this world of silver-spangled seas, scrumptious food and bohemian bed-hopping
The Times and Sunday Times, Best Fiction Books of the Year 2020
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One of the year's most lushly enjoyable novels, published during lockdown, it transports us straight to a Greek island and leaves us yearning for the sight of a lemon tree against a turquoise sea
Daily Telegraph, The Best Novels of 2020
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Beautifully crafted, this book evokes a lost douceur de vivre
Financial Times, Readers Picks
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Samson's sun-saturated novel set on the Greek island of Hydra might be just the escapism you need right now … Samson captures the darkness, emerging fractures and the beauty of their lives in a sharply feminist novel
Daily Mail, Best Novels of 2020
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A coming-of-age story which slyly interrogates the creative battle of the sexes while transporting you to the beauty of a Greek island in summer
Cressida Connolly, Spectator, Books of the Year























