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Louisa Young

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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: 3.82 · 9,981 ratings · 1,402 reviews · 27 distinct worksSimilar authors
My Dear I Wanted to Tell Yo...

3.86 avg rating — 6,417 ratings — published 2011 — 52 editions
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The Heroes' Welcome (My Dea...

3.84 avg rating — 1,004 ratings — published 2014 — 24 editions
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Twelve Months and a Day

3.76 avg rating — 710 ratings — published 2022 — 12 editions
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You Left Early: A True Stor...

4.02 avg rating — 508 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions
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Devotion (My Dear I Wanted ...

3.95 avg rating — 275 ratings — published 2016 — 10 editions
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Baby Love (Evangeline Gower...

3.44 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1997 — 10 editions
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Tree of Pearls (Evangeline ...

4.15 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions
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A Great Task of Happiness: ...

3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions
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Desiring Cairo (Evangeline ...

3.73 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions
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The Book of the Heart

3.43 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions
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“No one ever wins a war, and wars are never over.”
Louisa Young, My Dear I Wanted to Tell You

“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

“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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