Lydia Syson

Longlisted for The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2013, shortlisted for WeRead Book Award 2013 & Branford Boase Award Spain, 1936. Felix, a spirited young nurse, has run away from London to help the cause of the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. But she is also following Nat, a passionate young man who has joined the International Brigades …
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Dr Graham set out to bring the sublime into the sex life of every married couple.  Widely considered the world’s first sex therapist, he guaranteed both ecstasy and fertility to the users of his infamous Celestial Bed, a contraption which harnessed all the most exciting developments of the Enlightenment. Electricity, magnetism, mind-altering gases and music …
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