Louisa Young is a best-selling British novelist, songwriter, short-story writer, biographer and journalist, whose work is published in 32 languages. As of 2021, she has published six novels under her own name and five with her daughter the actor Isabel Adomakoh Young under the nom de plume Zizou Corder. Her eleventh novel, Devotion, was published in June 2016. She is also the author of two non-fiction books, The Book of the Heart (Flamingo, 2000) and A Great Task of Happiness (Macmillan, 1995; Lulu, 2012). Her most recent book is a memoir, You Left Early: A True Story of Love and Alcohol (Borough Press, 2018), an account of her relationship with the composer , and of his alcoholism.Her next is a novel, 'Twelve Months and a Day', due in May 2022 (Borough Press).