In 1951 the Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston
left grey, post-war London for Greece. Settling first on the tiny
island of Kalymnos, then Hydra, their plan was to live simply and
focus on their writing The result is Charmian Clift's best known
and most loved books, Mermaid Singing and Peel Me a Lotus. Peel Me
a Lotus, the companion volume to Mermaid Singing relates their move
to Hydra where they bought a house and grappled with the chaos of
domestic life whilst becoming the centre of an informal bohemian
community of artists and writers. That group included Leonard
Cohen, who became their lodger, and his girlfriend Marianne Ihlen.
Clift paints an evocative picture of the characters and
sun-drenched rhythms of traditional life, long before backpackers
and mass tourism descended.
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