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Lydia Syson - 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.

Featured Books, with extracts, by Lydia Syson

Reader ReviewedThat Burning Summer
Lydia Syson
One of our Books of the Year 2013 & October 2013 Book of the Month Set in the Second World War this is a moving and evocative story set...
Lovereading Price: £6.39 - Saving £1.60 (20%) Featured in: 13+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 03/10/2013 Info Extract Buy

Reader ReviewedA World Between Us
Lydia Syson
Highly Commended for the Branford Boase Award 2013 and Longlisted for the 2013 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize Packed full of passion – both political and of all other kinds – this is a harrowing, thrilling and romantic account of the...
Lovereading Price: £5.59 - Saving £1.40 (20%) Featured in: 13+ readers | 11+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 04/10/2012 Info Extract Buy

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