Welcome to Louisa Young's website.
Thank you for visiting. A GREAT TASK OF HAPPINESS: The Life of Kathleen Scott - Louisa Young's acclaimed biography of her grandmother - has been revised and reissued, to celebrate the centenary of Captain Scott's Last Expedition. Louisa Young's novel My Dear I Wanted to Tell You has been selected for the Richard & Judy Bookclub, Spring 2012
Richard: 'Louisa Young writes with an extraordinary blend of delicacy and brutality about the Great War. She immerses us in the mud and blood of what was, in 1914, a new and catastrophic experience: trench war. It’s a captivating romance that buries itself deep in your consciousness.'
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2011, the Galaxy Book of the Year Award 2011, and the Wellcome Book Prize 2011. Read by Dan Stevens, with music by Robert Lockhart, it won the Audible Audiobook of the Year 2011 at the Galaxy National Book Awards. Here is a little film/interview from Channel 4 on the book and the awards. 
Read by Olivia Colman, it was BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime in January 2012
New podcast interview: on Johnny Cash, the history of maxillofacial surgery, love and WW1 . . . 'This novel is a triumph' - Elizabeth Jane Howard Read an interview with Louisa Young from The Times, March 17 2011 Watch a film about the book here. Louisa talks about the book here. In the US? Buy the book here. Hear Louisa interviewed by Kirsty Lang on Front Row - Radio Four - here. See what Waterstones' booksellers think of it here. Read a review in The Independent here. Listen to Louisa on Simon Mayo's Radio 2 Bookclub here. Read here Louisa's article in the Independent on one the best books about WW1. Listen to Andrew Motion, Claire Armitstead and Louisa Young discussing WW1 poetry here.
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