Interview with Louisa Young in The Times
Read an interview, by Sally Williams, about You Left Early, in The Times. Ignore the headline; it’s an embarrassment.
Louisa Young interviewed in the Evening Standard
Click here to read Katie Law’s interview with Louisa Young in the London Evening Standard
She Deserved It: a scrap of memoir, set on the Hammersmith & City Line
Autobiographical jewels of mine hang from that pink ribbon as it ambles across the city. Think of them as coloured lightbulbs strung along frayed electric flex over a market stall; a long twist of Chinese lanterns glowing in the dusk; damp-stained gems of coloured diamanté dangling at intervals from a cheap foxed chain. A rosary of things that happened. The stations of the King’s Cross to Hammersmith stretch.
Think of London lying naked by the river, wearing everything that is inflicted on her. Decorated, damaged, ignited, weighted, chained, wounded, loved, undermined, traversed, surviving . . .
Listen to it here
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