Known to children around the world for the best-selling Lionboy series (written with her daughter under the name Zizou Corder), Louisa Young makes use of her abundant storytelling gifts in her first novel for adults: “My Dear I Wanted to Tell You,” a moving tale of men and women tested to their limits by World War I. Riley Purefoy is an ambitious working-class Londoner whose aspirations are nurtured by the bohemian Waveney family — until he grows too close to their daughter Nadine.
Book Review: Louisa Young’s ‘my Dear I Wanted To Tell You’
Wendy Smith, Washington Post
Mon, 07/18/2011 - 5:25pm
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