Louisa Young

Louisa Young has written three novels: Babylove (long-listed for the Orange Prize), Desiring Cairo, Tree of Pearls; a biography: A Great Task of Happiness: the Life of Kathleen Scott; and a cultural history, The Book of the Heart. As half of Zizou Corder, she has with her daughter, Isabel Adomakoh Young, written the children's books The Lionboy Trilogy, and Lee Raven, Boy Thief.