Posts Tagged ‘Dodie Smith’

  1. Bees not fleas

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    February 24, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    Fellow YA author Helen Grant and I struck up conversation on Twitter at the weekend after reading a couple of …
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  2. Christmas stories

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    December 7, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    This post was written for Hot Key Books ‘9 Days of Christmas’  All my childhood memories of Christmas merge into …
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“A mesmerising portrait of a family unravelling” THE TIMES (Best historical fiction in 2018)

“Powerful, intense and beautiful” HISTORICAL NOVEL REVIEW

“This tense, evocative, richly-imagined novel conjures the voices of a strange time and place, and makes them universal” EMMA DARWIN

“Syson brings history alive” THE OBSERVER

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