1960. Teenage Erica arrives on Hydra. She has come to meet the charismatic Charmian Clift, who with her husband rules the island's tangled artistic community. With Charmian's help, Erica finds her place among this wild circle of poets, painters and musicians. And in this circle there forms a triangle: the writer Axel Jensen, his dazzlingly beautiful wife Marianne, and a young Canadian poet named Leonard Cohen.

Burning with the heat and light of Greece, A Theatre for Dreamers is a novel about utopian dreams and innocence lost - and the wars waged between men and women on the battlegrounds of genius.