Louisa Young

Louisa Young is a British novelist, songwriter, short-story writer, biographer and journalist. By 2023 she had published seven novels under her own name and five with her daughter, Isabel Adomakoh Young, under the pen name Zizou Corder. She has written three non-fiction books, The Book of the Heart (Flamingo, 2000), A Great Task of Happiness: The Life of Kathleen Scott (Macmillan, 1995; Lulu, 2012) and You Left Early: A True Story of Love and Alcohol (Borough Press, 2018), an account of her relationship with the composer Robert Lockhart. Her novel, Twelve Months and a Day, was published in June 2022 (Borough Press) in the UK, and in the US in January 2023 (Putnam). Her most recent novel, 'The Golden Hours' is a continuation of the Cazalet Chronicles and published in September 2026 (Mantle, Pan Macmillan). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.