Sydney Padua

Praise for The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

So impossibly funny, clever, demented, charming and altogether wonderful that I was a convert within three pages. Buy it for everyone you know, regardless of what you think they like. Brilliant stuff

Lucy Mangan, Book of the Year, Stylist

An utter joy... Padua has done her research: she has teased out the connections between Babbage, Lovelace and what would seem to be the whole of Victorian culture and society - and done so in a way that appears almo ...

Nicholas Lezard, Guardian

My new favourite book. It has everything. Byron, maths, imaginary computers, emotion

Matt Haig, author of Reasons to Stay Alive

So impossibly funny, clever, demented, charming and altogether wonderful that I was a convert within three pages. Buy it for everyone you know, regardless of what you think they like. Brilliant stuff

Lucy Mangan, Book of the Year, Stylist

An utter joy... Padua has done her research: she has teased out the connections between Babbage, Lovelace and what would seem to be the whole of Victorian culture and society - and done so in a way that appears almo ...

Nicholas Lezard, Guardian

My new favourite book. It has everything. Byron, maths, imaginary computers, emotion

Matt Haig, author of Reasons to Stay Alive

So impossibly funny, clever, demented, charming and altogether wonderful that I was a convert within three pages. Buy it for everyone you know, regardless of what you think they like. Brilliant stuff

Lucy Mangan, Book of the Year, Stylist

An utter joy... Padua has done her research: she has teased out the connections between Babbage, Lovelace and what would seem to be the whole of Victorian culture and society - and done so in a way that appears almo ...

Nicholas Lezard, Guardian

My new favourite book. It has everything. Byron, maths, imaginary computers, emotion

Matt Haig, author of Reasons to Stay Alive