SYBIL & CYRIL

A joy to read Sunday Times Outstanding Daily Telegraph Excellent The Spectator Superb Literary Review Scintillating A gripping mysterious love story which also sheds light on British culture between the wars Financial Times In 1922 Cyril Power a fifty year old architect left his family to work with the twenty four year old Sybil Andrews They would be together for twenty years Both became famous for their dynamic modernist linocuts streamlined full of movement and brilliant colour summing up the hectic interwar years Theirs was a scintillating world of Futurists Surrealists and pioneering abstraction but alongside the buzz of the new of machines and speed shops and sport and dance they also looked back to medieval myths and early music to country ways disappearing from sight