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Lucy Lethbridge has written for a number of publications and is also the author of several children's books, one of which, Who Was Ada Lovelace?, won the 2002 Blue Peter Award for non-fiction. She is the author of Spit and Polish (2016) and Servants, published to critical acclaim in 2013. She lives in London.
PRAISE FOR TOURISTS: Lucy Lethbridge's warmth and wit make her the perfect tour guide to the intriguing history of the British abroad. * Lucasta Miller * PRAISE FOR TOURISTS: Full of human interest and fresh insights, Tourists offers a wonderfully enjoyable account of one of the defining phenomena of the past two centuries. * David Kynaston * PRAISE FOR TOURISTS: To write well about the attempts of the British to enjoy themselves in that fraught territory 'abroad', you need a sense of the ridiculous, an eye for the poignant, the ability to leaven a mass of date with wit. In Tourists, Lucy Lethbridge ticks all the boxes. * Andrew Martin * I really can't recommend Lucy Lethbridge's new book on the history of tourism enough - especially if you are going on holiday. -- Tom Holland So much varied research has contributed to this excellent book that it is a treasure-trove of many more significant facts than one can cite... She is surely right in her assessment that the hopeful tourist is forever in search of the lost pastoral world of our pre-industrial ancestors, the 'real' foreign country, where authentic people make real things. -- Gillian Tindall * Literary Review * Praise for SERVANTS: 'Glorious ... Servants is full of eyebrow-raising and laughter-inducing vignettes. But what is most fascinating is Lethbridge's account of the dark side of the master-servant relationship * Daily Telegraph * Beautifully written, sparkling with insight, and a pleasure to read, Servants is social history at its most humane and perceptive. In broad terms the world Lethbridge describes is a familiar one, but she nails it all down with the kind of detail that still has the power to astonish, outrage or amuse * Times Literary Supplement * An enthralling social history of the past century, told through the eyes of those who served ... Here, the voices of servants and home helpers, largely ignored by history, are brought to life. And what a life! ... The book is full of fascinating titbits ... Lethbridge shows that the history of life below stairs is just as interesting as the story of life above them * Tatler *
