Louisa Young is a writer and songwriter whose twelve novels include the award-winning My Dear I Wanted to Tell You trilogy. She’s a Londoner, a former journalist, a singer, a feminist, a reader, and ‘a masterly storyteller’ – The Washington Post. She has also written memoir, cultural history, and biography, and made an album. She was half of the children’s author Zizou Corder (with her daughter Isabel Adomakoh Young), and half of the band Birds of Britain (with Alex Mackenzie).

She is currently working on three novels continuing The Cazalet Chronicles, by Elizabeth Jane Howard, to be published from 2026 by Mantle (MacMillan).

Her most recent novel is Twelve Months And A Day (Borough Press): ‘A tale of two love stories with a supernatural twist . . poignant and sad as well as funny, and beautifully written and imagined’ — Monique Roffey. Her ‘heartbreaking’, ‘spectacular’, ‘unflinching’, ‘bruising’, ‘brilliant’, ‘honest as the morning after’ memoir, You Left Early: A True Story of Love and Alcohol, is out in paperback. Her debut album is also called You Left Early.

Louisa has taught at Arvon, Skyros, Moniack Mhor, Eilean Shona, at Guardian Masterclasses, and for Birkbeck (University of London) as well as privately. She has been a Visiting Specialist Lecturer in Creative Non Fiction at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Her work is published in 32 languages, and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Agent: Ariella, afeiner@unitedagents.co.uk
Film & TV: Jen, jthomas@unitedagents.co.uk

Press/Publicity: Cazalets, poppy.north@macmillan.com

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