Lucy Inglis

About The Author

Lucy Inglis is the creator of the Georgian London blog, and her book of the same name was shortlisted for the Longman-History Today Prize. City of Halves, her first novel for young adults, was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Branford Boase Award. Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium was published by Pegasus Books in 2019. She lives in Britain.

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Books by Lucy Inglis

Born

A History of Childbirth

By Lucy Inglis

*An Amazon Editors' Picks: Best History books of October*

A groundbreaking history of childbirth filled with medical, political, and social triumphs, Born is the story of how we give birth set against the female struggle to govern their ability to reproduce.

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Milk of Paradise

A History of Opium

By Lucy Inglis

An intelligent and authoritative history of opium—a drug that has both healed and harmed since the beginning of civilization.

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