Set on the Western Front, in London and in Paris, My Dear, I Wanted To Tell You is a novel of love, class and sex in wartime, and how war affects those left behind as well as those who fight.
About the Author
Louisa Young is a history graduate, and worked as a journalist for British national newspapers and magazines for some years. Her first book wasA 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 CairoandTree of Pearls. They were followed byThe Book of the Heart, a cultural history of our most symbolic organ. She has also published the Lionboy trilogy of children’s novels, written with her then ten-year-old daughter under the pseudonymZizou Corderand two further children's novels, Lee Raven Boy Thief and Halo. .,Her 2011 bestsellerMy 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. It was followed by two sequels, The Heroes' Welcome and Devotion, and a memoir, You Left Early: A True Story of Love and Alcohol, about her relationship with the composer Robert Lockhart.Her most recent book is a novel, Twelve Months and a Day.She lives in London.http://www.louisayoung.co.uk/about.html
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