Louisa Young
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