Louisa Young is a writer and songwriter, a former journalist, a Londoner, and 'a masterly storyteller', according to The Washington Post. Her twelve novels include the award-winning My Dear I Wanted to Tell You trilogy, which Elizabeth Jane Howard called 'a triumph'. She has also written memoir - You Left Early, a True Story of Love and Alcohol; cultural history - The Book of the Heart; and biography - A Great Task of Happiness: The Life of Kathleen Scott (who was Captain Scott's widow, Louisa's grandmother and Jane's mother-in-law).

Louisa is half of the children's author Zizou Corder, as whom, with her daughter, the actor Isabel Adomakoh Young, she wrote the Lionboy novels for children. And she has also made an album of her own songs, You Left Early, as Birds of Britain, with Alex Mackenzie.

Louisa's work is published in thirty-two languages, and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.