Lydia Syson
Lydia Syson is a fifth-generation North Londoner who now lives south of the river. Although writing a novel was a very early ambition, it took her rather a long time to get round to A World Between Us. In the meantime, she went from being a World Service radio listener in Botswana to a producer in London, leaving the BBC after her first child was born. Three more children later she wrote a biography of Britains first fertility guru, Doctor of Love: James Graham And His Celestial Bed, telling the full story of the charismatic eighteenth-century electric doctor. Getting to Timbuktu is still on the to do list explorers, poets and Timbuktu fever were the subject of the PhD she finished in 2003 but the political situation makes that unlikely for the foreseeable future. This years travels have been closer to home: her next YA novel for Hot Key Books is set mainly on Romney Marsh.
Genres: Historical
Novels
A World Between Us (2012)
That Burning Summer (2013)
Liberty's Fire (2015)
Mr Peacock's Possessions (2018)
That Burning Summer (2013)
Liberty's Fire (2015)
Mr Peacock's Possessions (2018)
Non fiction show
Lydia Syson recommends
The Last Cherry Blossom (2020)
Kathleen Burkinshaw
"Past and future come into unbearable collision in this spellbinding evocation of Japan during the final years of World War Two, which is told through the eyes of an observant twelve-year-old growing up in Hiroshima. A heartbreaking exploration of tradition, family ties and the utter horror of nuclear war, The Last Cherry Blossom is a timely reminder that we forget the reality of total warfare at our peril."
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