THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERDelicious Nigella LawsonClever and beguiling GuardianSublime and immersive Jojo MoyesErica is eighteen and ready for freedom. Its the summer of 1960 when she lands on the sunbaked 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 dreamlike 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 ObserverHeady armchair escapism ... An impressionistic intoxicating rush of sensory experience Sunday TimesIf summer was suddenly like a novel it would be like this one. Immaculate Andrew OHagan