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Louisa Young is a high-selling English novelist, songwriter, short-story writer, biographer and journalist, whose work has appeared in 32 languages. By 2021 she had published six novels under her own name and five with her daughter, the actor Isabel Adomakoh Young, under the pen name Zizou Corder. Her eleventh novel, Devotion, appeared in June 2016. She has also written two non-fiction books, The Book of the Heart (Flamingo, 2000) and A Great Task of Happiness (Macmillan, 1995; Lulu, 2012). Her memoir, You Left Early: A True Story of Love and Alcohol (Borough Press, 2018), is an account of her relations with the composer Robert Lockhart and of his alcoholism. Her new novel, Twelve Months and a Day, was published in June 2022 (Borough Press) in the UK, and in the US in January 2023 (Putnam). She is currently working with composer Mark Springer on an opera adaptation.