Louisa Young

Louisa Young is a best-selling British novelist, 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. She is also the author of two non-fiction books, The Book of the Heart and A Great Task of Happiness. Her most recent book is a memoir, You Left Early: A True Story of Love and Alcohol, an account of her relationship with the composer Robert Lockhart, and of his alcoholism.