This episode is a piece of memoir, in which bestselling author Louisa strings moments from her life like beads along the pink ribbon of the Hammersmith & City Line, hooking a memory to each station, from a childhood spent in Hammersmith to sitting vigil by her beloved’s hospital bed in Euston.
Louisa Young was born in London and read modern history at Cambridge. As a journalist she worked mostly for the motorcycle press, for Marie Claire and for the Guardian. Young is the award-winning author of thirteen books, including My Dear I Wanted to Tell You, The Heroes' Welcome and Devotion – three novels set across the early 20th century, following the Locke and Purefoy families from the outbreak of WW1 the 1930s; The Book of the Heart, a cultural history of that most vital organ, and A Great Task of Happiness, the biography of her grandmother Kathleen Scott, sculptor and widow of Scott of the Antarctic. She is the adult half of Zizou Corder, authors of the best-selling Lionboy trilogy, which is published in 36 languages. Her memoir, You Left Early: A True Story of Love and Alcohol is published in June.
Underground: Tales for London features original short stories by London-loving authors from across the world. Each story, written by a Borough Press author, will be available to Evening Standard readers as a free podcast, from standard.co.uk
https://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Left-Early-Story-Alcohol/dp/0008265178
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