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Louisa Young

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Louisa Young is an award-winning best-selling British novelist, [1] songwriter, short-story writer, biographer and journalist, whose work is published in 32 languages. As of 2018, she has published six novels under her own name and five with her daughter Isabel Adomakoh Young under the nom de plume Zizou Corder . Her eleventh novel, Devotion , was published in June 2016. [2] [3] [4] She is also the author of two non-fiction books, The Book of the Heart (Flamingo, 2000) and A Great Task of Happiness (Macmillan, 1995; Lulu, 2012). Her latest book is a memoir, 'You Left Early: A True Story of Love and Alcohol' (Borough Press, 2018), an account of her relationship with the composer Robert Lockhart, and of his alcoholism. Young's work has been nominated and shortlisted for many different prizes, including the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Costa Book of the Year Prize, the Costa Novel of the Year Prize, the Galaxy Audible Audiobook of the Year Prize, which it won, t

Oakham

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For other uses, see Oakham (disambiguation). Oakham Cutts Close Park, with All Saints' Church in the background Oakham Location within Rutland Population 10,922 (2011 Census) OS grid reference SK857088 Unitary authority Rutland Ceremonial county Rutland Region East Midlands Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town OAKHAM Postcode district LE15 Dialling code 01572 Police Leicestershire Fire Leicestershire Ambulance East Midlands EU Parliament East Midlands UK Parliament Rutland and Melton List of places UK England Rutland 52°40′14″N 0°44′00″W  /  52.6705°N 0.7333°W  / 52.6705; -0.7333 Coordinates: 52°40′14″N 0°44′00″W  /  52.6705°N 0.7333°W  / 52.6705; -0.7333 Oakham is the county town of Rutland in the East Midlands of England, 25 miles (40.2 km) east of Leicester, 28 miles (45.1 km) south-east of Nottingham and 23 miles (37.0 km) west of Peterborough. Oakham has a po

River Welland

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For other uses, see Welland (disambiguation). River Welland The river at Stamford Location Country United Kingdom Country within the UK England Counties Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Lincolnshire Towns Market Harborough, Stamford, Crowland, Spalding Physical characteristics Source    - location Hothorpe Hills, Sibbertoft, Northamptonshire  - coordinates 52°26′24″N 1°00′35″W  /  52.4399°N 1.0098°W  / 52.4399; -1.0098  - elevation 157 m (515 ft) Mouth Fosdyke Wash [1]  - location The Wash, Lincolnshire  - coordinates 52°53′54″N 0°01′51″E  /  52.8983°N 0.0308°E  / 52.8983; 0.0308 Coordinates: 52°53′54″N 0°01′51″E  /  52.8983°N 0.0308°E  / 52.8983; 0.0308  - elevation 1 m (3 ft 3 in) Length 105 km (65 mi) Basin size 1,580 km 2 (610 sq mi) Discharge    - location Tallington [2]  - average 3.7 m 3 /s (130 cu ft/s) [2]  - maximum 94.5 m 3 /s (3,340 cu ft/s) [3] B