Louisa Young is a British novelist,[1] songwriter, short-story writer, biographer and journalist, whose work has appeared in 32 languages.

[2][3][4] She has also written three non-fiction books, The Book of the Heart (Flamingo, 2000), A Great Task of Happiness: The Life of Kathleen Scott (Macmillan, 1995; Lulu, 2012) and her memoir, You Left Early: A True Story of Love and Alcohol (Borough Press, 2018), an account of her relationship with the composer Robert Lockhart and of his alcoholism.

Her most recent novel, Twelve Months and a Day, was published in June 2022 (Borough Press) in the UK, and in the US in January 2023 (Putnam).

[2][5] Young worked as a sub-editor, then as a freelance columnist and feature writer on national publications, including The Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Daily Express, Marie Claire, Tatler, Bike and Motorcycle International.

She also worked at various stages as a despatch rider, a busker (double bass and vocals), a waitress, a kitchen-hand and a shop assistant.

[6] Then came three novels set in London and Egypt: Baby Love, Desiring Cairo and Tree of Pearls (Flamingo).

Her novel "Twelve Months and a Day" was published in the UK by Borough Press in June 2022, and by Putnam in the US in January 2023, when it was People Magazine's Book of the Week Young's music project "Birds of Britain" is a collaboration with multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer Alex Mackenzie.