Louisa Young Boeken

The final instalment in Louisa Young's critically acclaimed series. What life will Angeline choose?

From the bestselling author of My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You and The Heroes' Welcome, Louisa Young's Devotion is a novel of family, love, race and politics set during the electric change of the 1930s. Tom loves Nenna. Nenna loves her father. Her father loves Mussolini. Ideals and convictions are not always so clear in the murky years between the end of the First World War and the beginning of the Second. For Tom and Kitty Locke, children of the damaged WW1 generation, visiting their cousin Nenna in Rome is a pure joy. For their adoptive parents Nadine and Riley, though, the ground is still shifting underfoot. Nobody knew in 1919 that the children they were bearing would be just ripe for the next war in 1939; nobody knew, in 1935, the implications of an Italian Jewish family supporting Mussolini. Meanwhile Peter Locke and Mabel Zachary have found each other again together in London, itself a city reborn but riddled with its own intolerances. As the heat rises across Europe, voices grow louder and everyone must brace once more to decide what should bring them together, and what must drive them apart.

Exploring the life of Kathleen Scott, this biography reveals her journey as a pioneering sculptor and the widow of Antarctic explorer Captain Scott. Authored by her granddaughter, Louisa Young, the narrative draws from Kathleen's diaries, showcasing her reflections on art, politics, and her notable friendships with figures like Bernard Shaw and Isadora Duncan. The book celebrates her adventurous spirit and significant contributions, aligning with the centenary of Scott's last expedition. The Times hailed it as "an enthralling life."

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.

LONDON, APRIL 1919. THE GREAT WAR HAS ENDED. In a flurry of spring blossom, childhood sweethearts Nadine Waverney and Rilery Purefoy are married. Thos who have survived the war are, in a way, home. But Riley is wounded and disfigured; normality seems incomprehensible, and love unfathomable. Honeymooning in a battered, liberated Europe, they long for a marriage made of love and passion rather than dependence and pity. At Locke Hill in Kent, Riley’s former CO Major Peter Locke is obsessed by Homer. His hysterical wife, Julia, and the young son they barely know attempt to navigate family life, but are confounded by the ghosts and memories of Peter’s war. Despite all this, there is the glimmer of a real future in the distance: Rose Locke, Peter’s cousin and Riley’s former nurse, finds that independence might be hers for the taking, after all. For those who fought, those who healed and those who stayed behind, 1919 is a year of accepting realities, holding to hope and reaching after new beginnings. The Heroes’ Welcome is a brave and brilliant evocation of a time deeply wounded by the pain of war. It is as devastating as it is inspiring.

"Two couples. Four unfinished lives. A love that transcends space and time. Rasmus and Jay, Róisín and Nico: two couples, strangers to each other. Two beautiful, ordinary love stories, cut short. Both in their thirties and too young to be widowed, Róisín swears she still feels Nico beside her in bed. Rasmus hears Jay as he writes songs at the piano. Jay and Nico don't even believe in ghosts, yet here they still are. Still in love with Rasmus and Róisín. And maddeningly powerless. Until Jay has an idea that Nico wants no part of - bringing Róisín and Rasmus together. It's crazy enough that it just might work, but playing matchmaker to the living is no easy feat and one that will require all four of them to discover the meaning of love after loss, and the importance of fighting for happiness against all odds. Moving and thought-provoking, playful and bittersweet, Twelve Months and a Day asks what is love? And what are we to do with it?"-- Provided by publisher

`Extraordinarily powerful' Emma Thompson There are a million love stories, and a million stories of addiction. This one is transcendent.

The sparky, funny sequel to Louisa Young's acclaimed first novel of belly- dancing, motorbikes and single-parenthood.

Italien, Anfang der dreißiger Jahre. Tom arbeitet als Korrespondent einer englischen Zeitung in Rom. Die Liebe zu seiner Kindheitsfreundin Nenna hat ihn erneut in das von Mussolini beherrschte Italien geführt. Die friedliche Zeit ihrer Urlaube, die gemeinsam verbrachten Sommer mit den Familien und das Umherstreifen in der lichtdurchfluteten Stadt sind lange vorbei. Das aufkommende Unheil wirft seinen Schatten voraus. Verzweifelt versucht Tom, Nenna aus den Klauen der politischen Propaganda und ihres verblendeten Vaters zu befreien. Die Gefahr, die ihnen als Juden vom Faschismus droht, ist noch nicht offensichtlich. Ein Verrat zwingt Tom, das Land zu verlassen und nach London zurückzukehren. Aber Tom will seine Liebe nicht aufgeben. Er setzt alles daran, Nenna zu retten. Koste es, was es wolle.

Angeline verliert ihren Führerschein, als sie betrunken in eine Einbahnstraße abbiegt, was ihre Chancen auf das Sorgerecht für ihre Nichte Lily gefährdet. Trotz ihrer prekären Situation als Bauchtänzerin gibt sie nicht auf und geht einen riskanten Deal mit der Polizei ein, um ihren Exfreund Max auszuhorchen.