Lydia Syson

Broschiertes Buch

Liberty's Fire

Beschreibung

Alone and poverty-stricken, sixteen-year-old ZÃ phyrine is quickly lured in by the ideals of the city's radical new government, and she finds herself swept away by its promises of freedom, hope, equality and rights for women. But she is about to be seduced for a second time, following a fateful encounter with a young violinist.

Autor

Lydia Syson is a fifth-generation North Londoner who now lives south of the river with her partner and four children. After an early career as a BBC World Service Radio producer, she turned from the spoken to the written word, and developed an enduring obsession with history. Her PhD about poets, explorers and Timbuktu was followed by a biography of Britain's first fertility guru, DOCTOR OF LOVE: JAMES GRAHAM AND HIS CELESTIAL BED, and then two YA novels for Hot Key Books, set in the Spanish Civil War (A WORLD BETWEEN US) and World War Two (THAT BURNING SUMMER). LIBERTY'S FIRE is the third of her novels to be inspired, very loosely, by family history: Lydia's anarchist great-great-grandmother moved in Communard circles in late nineteenth century London. Read more about Lydia and her books at www.lydiasyson.com or on Twitter: @lydiasyson

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hot Key Books
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1772
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Altersempfehlung: von 14 bis 17 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9781471403675
• ISBN-10: 147140367X
• Artikelnr.: 41590622

Rezensionen

...a thrilling, daring love story... Known for bringing neglected historical periods to life for her teenage audience, Syson's passionate account of the lives of four youths during those dramatic seventy-two days in 1871 is a riveting yarn. BookSlut