Louisa Young was a journalist for some years. Her first book was A
Great Task of Happiness (1995), the life of Kathleen Bruce, her
grandmother, the sculptor and wife of Scott of the Antarctic. She
followed that with her Egyptian trilogy of novels: Baby Love (which
was listed for the Orange Prize), Desiring Cairo and Tree of
Pearls. They were followed by The Book of the Heart, a cultural
history of our most symbolic organ. She has also published a
trilogy of children’s novels, written with her ten-year-old
daughter under the pseudonym Zizou Corder.
Her most recent novel, The Heroes’ Welcome is a follow-up to the
2011 bestseller My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You, which was
shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2011 and the Wellcome Book
Prize, was a Richard and Judy Book Club choice, and the first ever
winner of the Galaxy Audiobook of the Year.
She lives in London with her daughter.
‘Every once in a while comes a novel that generates its own
success, simply by being loved.’
The Times ‘Birdsong for the new millennium’
Tatler ‘Powerful, sometimes shocking, boldly conceived, it fixes on
war’s lingering trauma to show how people adapt – or not – and is
irradiated by anger and pity’
The Sunday Times ‘[A] tender, elegiac novel. Others have been here
before, of course, from Sebastian Faulks to Pat Barker, but Young
belongs in their company’
Mail on Sunday ‘Unmissable … in crisp poignant prose Young explores
what war really means in terms of mental anguish, while cleverly
commenting on class and sex’
Marie Claire ‘Weaving heartbreakingly painful irony, heroic
sacrifice, human weakness, vanity, tragedy and the purest of loves,
you’ll be left sobbing and grasping onto any hope that all is not
lost amid the poppies, the guns and the hospital beds’
Easy Living ‘A memorable and unusual novel which explores new
ground in the literature of the Great War’
Linda Grant ‘This novel is a triumph’
Elizabeth Jane Howard ‘Young has a historian’s eye for the private
details of war, and a warmth to her prose that makes her small cast
emotionally engaging … Through Riley, however, the novel achieves
an appeal to compassion and courage that deserves to reach a wide
audience … Hindsight tells us peace will not be final, but Young
conveys, beautifully, the universal wish that it might be’
Independent ‘Beautifully realised’
Daily Express ‘Masterfully conveyed’
Woman & Home ‘Full of drama, betrayal and addictive real-life
detail’
Red ‘This is a moving and powerful novel, one you’re not likely to
forget’
Choice ‘A book that should be read by everyone’
New Books
'Every once in a while comes a novel that generates its own
success, simply by being loved.'
The Times
'Birdsong for the new millennium'
Tatler
'Powerful, sometimes shocking, boldly conceived, it fixes on
war's lingering trauma to show how people adapt - or not - and is
irradiated by anger and pity'
The Sunday Times
'[A] tender, elegiac novel. Others have been here before, of
course, from Sebastian Faulks to Pat Barker, but Young belongs in
their company'
Mail on Sunday
'Unmissable ... in crisp poignant prose Young explores what war
really means in terms of mental anguish, while cleverly commenting
on class and sex'
Marie Claire
'Weaving heartbreakingly painful irony, heroic sacrifice, human
weakness, vanity, tragedy and the purest of loves, you'll be left
sobbing and grasping onto any hope that all is not lost amid the
poppies, the guns and the hospital beds'
Easy Living
'A memorable and unusual novel which explores new ground in the
literature of the Great War'
Linda Grant
'This novel is a triumph'
Elizabeth Jane Howard
'Young has a historian's eye for the private details of war, and
a warmth to her prose that makes her small cast emotionally
engaging ... Through Riley, however, the novel achieves an appeal
to compassion and courage that deserves to reach a wide audience
... Hindsight tells us peace will not be final, but Young conveys,
beautifully, the universal wish that it might be'
Independent
'Beautifully realised'
Daily Express
'Masterfully conveyed'
Woman & Home
'Full of drama, betrayal and addictive real-life detail'
Red
'This is a moving and powerful novel, one you're not likely to
forget'
Choice
'A book that should be read by everyone'
New Books
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