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Louisa Young

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Children's Books

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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. .
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Average rating: 3.84 · 9,293 ratings · 1,288 reviews · 26 distinct works • Similar authors
My Dear I Wanted to Tell Yo...
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The Heroes' Welcome (My Dea...
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Twelve Months and a Day
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You Left Early: A True Stor...
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Devotion (My Dear I Wanted ...
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Baby Love (Evangeline Gower...
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A Great Task of Happiness: ...
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“No one ever wins a war, and wars are never over.”
― Louisa Young, My Dear I Wanted to Tell You
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“Courage for the big troubles in life, lad' he'd say, 'and patience for the small. Be of good cheer. God is awake.”
― Louisa Young, My Dear I Wanted to Tell You
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“Length of service: one year or duration of war. Duration of war, of course. He didn't want to spend a whole year in the army.”
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