A TOUCH OF ESCAPISM WITH POLLY SAMSON

Choruses of cicadas, white-painted towns overlooking aquamarine waters and brilliant pink bougainvilleas draped over houses – just the thought of these classically Greek sights and sounds is enough to transport you to the Aegean.

It’s also what the book A Theatre of Dreamers – a novel by author and wife of Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, Polly Samson, above – accomplishes.

Set on the enchanting island of Hydra, A Theatre for Dreamers dives into the bohemian world of singer Leonard Cohen and his circle of creative friends during the 1960s. Offering a spellbinding insight into the goings on between the artists on the island, it also sweeps you up and makes you feel as though you’re sitting there with them in the Greek sunshine.

Samson says: ‘I am so pleased every time a reader says that A Theatre for Dreamers transports them to Greece – and, best of all, when I’m told that it almost makes up for a cancelled holiday!

‘I’m so looking forward to being back on Hydra, to having breakfast at the waterfront watching the cats gathering around the fishing boats, and to lazing on warm rocks and swimming in the sparkling sea.’ A Theatre for Dreamers, RRP £14.99