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Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside—the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble tea and the vegetables grown by the other young artists at the London studio space she is secretly squatting in. But Lydia can't eat any of this. The only thing she can digest is blood, and it turns out that sourcing fresh pigs' blood in London—where she is living away from her vampire mother for the first time—is much more difficult than she'd anticipated.

For centuries past, and all across the world, there are words for a certain kind of woman. Words that raise our hackles, fire up our blood. Words that tell a story. In this blazing cauldron of a book, the boldest writers of our day take up these words and take up their pen, celebrating fifty years of Virago.

In Lost Wonders author and journalist Tom Lathan tells the stories of ten species that have lived, died out and been declared extinct since the turn of the twenty-first century. In a series of fascinating encounters with subjects that are now nowhere to be found on Earth – from giant tortoises to minuscule snails the size of sesame seeds, from ocean-hopping trees to fish that wag their tails like puppies – Lathan brings these lost wonders briefly back to life and gives us a tantalising glimpse of what we have lost within our own lifetime.

Lydia è affamata. Ha ventitré anni da molto tempo e ha sempre voluto provare sashimi, ramen, onigiri con umeboshi… tutto quello che suo padre amava mangiare. E poi ancora gelati, torte e gli ortaggi che vengono coltivati dagli altri artisti come lei, nel complesso di loft in cui dovrebbe solo lavorare, ma in cui segretamente vive. Eppure, Lydia non può mangiare nessuna di queste cose. Il suo corpo non funziona come quello degli altri. L’unica cosa che riesce a digerire è il sangue.