Lydia Syson - Children's Author

Lydia Syson is a fifth-generation North Londoner who now lives south of the river. She is working through her ambitions in a disorderly fashion. The publication of her first novel, A WORLD BETWEEN US, has taken a good few decades. During this time she went from being a BBC World Service radio listener in Botswana to a producer in London, and then became a non-medical doctor and mother of four.
She also wrote a biography of Britain's first fertility guru, DOCTOR OF LOVE: JAMES GRAHAM AND HIS CELESTIAL BED, learning a lot about enlightenment sex in the process.

 

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Getting to Timbuktu is still on the 'to do' list - it's the subject of her PhD thesis - but it will have to be via Romney Marsh, where her next YA novel for Hot Key Books will be set. Bilingualism and Hollywood musical stardom are looking increasingly unlikely.

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Featured Books, with extracts by Lydia Syson

A World Between Us
Lydia Syson
Shortlisted for The Branford Boase Award 2013 Packed full of passion – both political and of all other kinds – this is a harrowing, thrilling and romantic account of the...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Book Awards | Branford Boase Award
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2012
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