You Left Early: A True Story of Love and Alcohol

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This is both a compelling portrait of a lifelong love affair, and an incredibly affecting guide to how the partner of a 'charismatic, infuriating, adorable, self-sabotaging’ alcoholic can find the strength to survive when the disease rips both their lives apart. Young worked as a sub-editor, then as a freelance columnist and feature writer on national publications, including the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Daily Express, Marie Claire, Tatler, Bike Magazine and Motorcycle International. She also worked at various stages as a despatch rider, a busker (double bass and vocals), a waitress, a kitchen-hand and a shop assistant. [5] History Makers: Female Writers Dominate the 2023 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award Shortlist Her novel "Twelve Months and a Day" was published in the UK by Borough Press in June 2022, and by Putnam in the US in January 2023, when it was People Magazine's Book of the Week There was no cancer in him, and no alcohol in his bloodstream when,two years later, he died. I can’t write again about how it happened. It’s nearly seven years ago now but it still makes me weak to think about it.

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Best Books Set in the 1920s — from Stories That Shimmer with Champagne and Social Change, to Rip-roaring Reads Covering Crime, Colonialism and Beyond. Perhaps both that novel and this memoir represent me clinging desperately to something that protects me from my greatest feat – to whit, that if I allow myself to perceive what many other believe, that an alcoholic’s behaviour is entirely his/her own fault, and that when Robert repeatedly told me that I’d chosen the wrong man he was for once telling the truth, I will be swamped by an impossible toxic flood of emotion because he was in fact a bastard and I am, still, a fool. We doubt our judgment. We don’t want them to be drinking; they say they’re not and we want to believe them — but of course they’re lying. Repeated contradictions make us think we’re going mad. We want, desperately, to help. We love them! But if we try to talk to them, we are a nag and a bore who’d drive anyone to drink. If we try to take alcohol away from them, they snap at us. Most of all, if we do help them, we are punished because to be honest we’re just making the whole thing last longer, and the next thing we know we are being called ‘co-dependent’, and ‘enabling’. And they’re still drinking. The 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.A Great Task of Happiness: The Life of Kathleen Scott (Macmillan, 1995); reissued by The Hydraulic Press, Lulu, 2012 This brutal, beautiful memoir from award-winning novelist Louisa Young is a heartbreaking portrayal of love, grief and the merciless grip of addiction. After graduation Robert built a career as a pianist and composer while Louisa became a novelist. Robert’s future was bright but he increasingly sabotaged it by being unreliable, cantankerous or both.

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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. Children under 5 can have their own Pebble card and can borrow up to 25 board books, picture books or talking books for up to three weeks. How long can I keep the items I have borrowed? The most riveting, heartbreaking book I've ever read about addiction, but above all about the nature of love. Already one of my books of the year’ Linda GrantAn 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 Most touching was his love of bird watching. Utterly sad was his father's phobia against travel which meant he never saw his son's various extraordinary triumphs, such as being awarded a double first at Oxford or his piano recitals at Wigmore Hall. We all need our triumphs witnessed by those we love - or they don't feel completely real. I am not able to give a positive review for this book at all and gave up half way through as did not connect at all to the main characters and actually really disliked both of them intensely. As someone who lives with an alcoholic and the disruption and chaos it causes for the family I am afraid I had little and no sympathy for the characters. 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

You Left Early: A True Story of Love and Alcohol

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. Robert was charismatic, a playful character described by a close friend as “extraordinary fun, because what he really loved was misbehaving, in every way he could possibly think of”. Perhaps I have an advantage point in my opinion having grown up not far from Wigan, and also with an alcoholic father.Above all Louisa Young has written an important book, one that demands we rethink a culture of blame around alcoholism. She is aghast when he writes of her as “my old friend” and describes breaking up with another woman as the “biggest mistake of my life”.

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Young was educated at Paddington's Hallfield Primary School, St Paul's Girls' School, Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where she read history. [2] [5] Career [ edit ]

Young's work has been nominated and shortlisted for prizes that include the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Costa Book of the Year, the Costa Novel of the Year, the Galaxy Audiobook of the Year Prize, which it won, the Booktrust Teenage Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the International Dublin Literary Award, the Wellcome Book Prize and the Folio Prize. It has been chosen by the Richard and Judy Book Club. Louisa Young was born in London, England, her father being the politician and writer Wayland Young (Lord Kennet), and her mother Elizabeth Young, Lady Kennet. She has five siblings, including the sculptor Emily Young. He looked like a Franz Liszt painted by El Greco, or a very old candle, or someone dug out of a peat bog where everything had kept growing on after his death.