You Left Early: A True Story of Love and Alcohol

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However, by now his lifestyle had taken a terrible toll on his health and the couple’s contentment proved to be short-lived. This brutal, beautiful memoir from award-winning novelist Louisa Young is a heartbreaking portrayal of love, grief and the merciless grip of addiction. An important book, one that demands we rethink a culture of blame around alcoholism … moving, harrowing and tirelessly empathetic’ Daily Express Fifty years ago, people didn’t used to talk about cancer. Now, we do Marathons in pink animal onesies to raise money for research. Can we please open our hearts, save our lives, and talk about alcoholism now? We need to fling up some windows, shine some light, and start this conversation out in the open. This is my way of doing that.

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Her latest novel, Twelve Months And A Day, is published by Borough Press in June 2022. ‘A tale of two love stories with a supernatural twist, Twelve Months and a Day is poignant and sad as well as funny, and beautifully written and imagined. What if our beloveds lived on as ghosts and watched us grieve, what if they never really leave us, and what if some of these ghosts even meet?’ — Monique Roffey She has contributed to various anthologies, including I Am Heathcliff (ed. Kate Mosse), Underground; Tales for London (ed. Ann Bissell) and A Love Letter to Europe (Coronet).LoveReading exists because books change lives, and buying books through LoveReading means you get to change the lives of future generations, with 25% of the cover price donated to schools in need. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. If you are unable to get to a static library because of illness or disability we can arrange for books and audio material to be brought to you on a regular basis by a volunteer. Although there are a million and a half alcoholics in Britain, many people don’t really know what alcoholism is… Alcoholism – addiction – isn’t a racy lifestyle choice, not a decision, but an insidious and baffling condition which kills people.”

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An extraordinarily candid bereavement memoir... As much as it's an overwhelming love letter, Young's book is also a sobering reminder of the devastating effects of alcoholism, not just on an individual's life, but on everyone else around them' Evening Standard But an essential read for those of us who know, have known or indeed will know an addict during the course of their life. A heart-breaking memoir that takes you on an emotional journey with love and resilience leading the wayThe relationship between her and Theo is well written, at times, tearjerking. The story is about Effie and Theo's lives and the way their closeness changes each other.

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The Top 23 Christmas Cookbooks for 2023: A Smorgasbord of Inspiration for a Happy Foodie This Christmas Novelist and songwriter Louisa Young has written this week’s guest blog for us, based on her best-selling book of the same name. Here Louisa tells us her experience as someone who loved someone who drank too much alcohol. Here’s a glimpse into her heartbreaking love story.There are a million tales of love and many more of addiction, claims the press release for You Left Early, a grief memoir by the award-winning novelist Louisa Young. “This one is truly transcendent,” it promises. Beneath the surface lurk questions, such as: shouldn’t she have let him drop to the bottom? Did he really love her? And indeed, what is love? This is a heart-breaking story which really pulls at your heartstrings knowing what emotional turmoil she went through and what she did for the man she loved so much. It has really opened my eyes to the journey that people suffering with alcoholism go on and how this has a profound and devastating impact on those around them. This book will stay with me for a long time. This was a really interesting and emotional book. I do agree with other review that it was quite long and went into a lot of sordid details but this was definitely important for Young to share.