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name: Louisa Young
about: Louisa Young is a history graduate, and worked as a journalist for British national newspapers and magazines for some years. Her first book was  A Great Task of Happiness (1995), the life of Kathleen Bruce, her grandmother, the sculptor and wife of Scott of the Antarctic. She followed that with her Egyptian trilogy of novels:  Baby Love (which was listed for the Orange Prize),  Desiring Cairo and  Tree of Pearls. They were followed by  The Book of the Heart, a cultural history of our most symbolic organ. She has also published the Lionboy trilogy of children’s novels, written with her then ten-year-old daughter under the pseudonym  Zizou Corder and two further children's novels, Lee Raven Boy Thief and Halo. .,Her 2011 bestseller  My Dear, Louisa Young is a history graduate, and worked as a journalist for British national newspapers and magazines for some years. Her first book was  A Great Task of Happiness (1995), the life of Kathleen Bruce, her grandmother, the sculptor and wife of Scott of the Antarctic. She followed that with her Egyptian trilogy of novels:  Baby Love (which was listed for the Orange Prize),  Desiring Cairo and  Tree of Pearls. They were followed by  The Book of the Heart, a cultural history of our most symbolic organ. She has also published the Lionboy trilogy of children’s novels, written with her then ten-year-old daughter under the pseudonym  Zizou Corder and two further children's novels, Lee Raven Boy Thief and Halo. .,Her 2011 bestseller  My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2011 and the Wellcome Book Prize, was a Richard and Judy Book Club choice, and the first ever winner of the Galaxy Audiobook of the Year. It was followed by two sequels, The Heroes' Welcome and Devotion, and a memoir, You Left Early: A True Story of Love and Alcohol, about her relationship with the composer Robert Lockhart. Her most recent book is a novel, Twelve Months and a Day. She lives in London.http://www.louisayoung.co.uk/about.html ...more