You Left Early: A True Story of Love and Alcohol

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Young's memoir You Left Early: A True Story of Love and Alcohol (Borough Press, 2018), covers her relationship with Robert Lockhart and difficult issues of addiction, talent, love and death. The book outlines the on/off relationship between novelist Louisa and musician/composer, alcoholic and serial womaniser Robert Lockart.

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The Lionboy trilogy was translated into 36 languages, and they were among the first UK children's novels to have a mixed-race hero of colour. Books/Audio books may be borrowed on an Open Ticket Adult for up to six weeks (for the initial loan period only).For much of Robert’s life he was addicted to alcohol and went through some very turbulent times, suffering injuries and near death experiences. In this way, lots of Young’s writing was really useful and true as an exposure of how complex an issue it really is.

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Young’s grandmother was a sculptor who assisted Harold Gillies, the pioneer of facial surgery, during World War I, and Young later wrote all about pedicles in her novel My Dear I Wanted to Tell You.

She mentions him in the next-to-last paragraph of this book, adding “I won’t mislead you: grief and love entwine like roses, and never die. Children, young adults, adults and Open Ticket users can borrow up to 25 items at a time - which can be 25 books. An interminable debt of gratitude go to Louisa Young for her candour and courage in writing this book.

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One of the astonishing things was his talent - he was the composer Robert Lockhart, had gone to Oxbridge at 16 and come out with a double first before becoming a concert pianist and then a composer of film music. Halo, set in ancient Greece, was shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize in 2010, and nominated for the Carnegie Medal in 2011.Interesting side note: when Robert was being treated for throat cancer, doctors had to use a pedicle to reconstruct his jaw. In this memoir of their relationship, she documents its erratic highs, appalling lows and Robert’s challenging road to a short-lived recovery. Alcoholism is something rarely discussed without some kind of value put on or bias tainting the narrative. 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.

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Inside, we wonder if it is our fault somehow, but addiction is nobody’s fault — addiction is partly genetic, partly psychological and partly circumstantial. Until then Robert had been “off with every bloody girl you could get your hands on” while Louisa was wary of his alcoholism.You can check the status of your requested item at any time by logging into your account or by contacting us. Littérature de jeunesse et presse des jeunes au début du XXIe siècle: Esquisse d'un état des lieux, enjeux et perspectives (in French).