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Elizabeth Young


Born
February 06, 1950

Genre
Chick Lit, Romance, Fiction


Librarian note: There is more than one author with this name in the Goodreads database.
This author also writes under Liz Young.
Elizabeth Young started writing after holding a variety of jobs that included modeling for TV commercials in Cyprus and working for the Sultan's Armed Forces in Oman. She has two daughters and lives in Surrey with her husband who never once told her to forget writing and get a "proper" job.

Elizabeth Young is a Chick lit and contemporary romance writer. Her novel Asking for Trouble was the basis for the movie The Wedding Date, directed by Clare Kilner, starring Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney. ...more

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Average rating: 3.67 · 19,252 ratings · 809 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors
Asking for Trouble
3.60 avg rating — 9,252 ratings — published 2000 — 52 editions
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A Promising Man
3.74 avg rating — 7,093 ratings — published 2001 — 21 editions
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A Girl's Best Friend: A Cha...
3.72 avg rating — 2,239 ratings — published 2003 — 18 editions
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Making Mischief: A Spicy, F...
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“I remember reading a fascinating article in the New York Times Magazine once where this guy said... Every woman has the exact love life she wants”
― Elizabeth Young
tags: asking-for-trouble, love-life
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“If you ask me, it's all these skinny models that make girls anorexic," she went on, to Auntie Barbara. "I
can't think why they don't use real girls with a few curves."

"Stands to reason, Jenny." Auntie B. was as pinkly flushed as Mum. "All the designers are gay—they
don't want bosoms in their clothes, or bottoms, either. Not proper, girls' bottoms.”
― Elizabeth Young, Asking for Trouble
tags: humor
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“Shoving the ends at him, I headed for the common. It wasn't far away: a green, tree-lined oasis, brightened with many seasonal varieties of Coca-Can discardus, Crisp-packetus-cheese-and-onionus, and the occasional, fragrant dog turd underfoot.”
― Elizabeth Young, Asking for Trouble
tags: humor
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