You Left Early : a True Story of Love and Alcohol

Author(s): Louisa Young

Biographies / Memoirs

'Spectacular. I can't stop thinking about it. Louisa Young is a beautiful, beautiful writer' Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love


This brutal, beautiful memoir from award-winning novelist Louisa Young is a heartbreaking portrayal of love, grief and the merciless grip of addiction.


Louisa first met Robert Lockhart when they were both 17. Their stop-start romance lasted decades, in which time he became a celebrated composer and she, an acclaimed novelist. Always snapping at their heels was Robert's alcoholism, a helpless, ferocious dependency that affected his personality before crippling and finally, despite five years of hard-won sobriety, killing him.


There are a million love stories, and a million stories of addiction. This one is truly transcendent. It is at once a compelling portrait of a unique and charismatic man; a bittersweet reflection on an all-consuming love affair; and a completely honest and incredibly affecting guide to how the partner of an alcoholic can possibly survive when the disease rips both their lives apart.


This is a hugely important book - raw and unflinching but also uplifting and elegiac, it should be essential reading for anybody who's ever lost someone they loved.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780008265182
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • : Harper Element
  • : 0.48
  • : February 2018
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  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Louisa Young
  • : Louisa Young
  • : 416
  • : 416
  • : 362.292092
  • : 362.292092
  • : English
  • : English
  • : 618
  • : 618
  • : Paperback
  • : Paperback