Glenda Young is an exciting talent writing gripping and heart-wrenching stories and is a top 50 paperback bestseller.
The Toffee Factory Girls (Headline, Feb 2024) is the first in a brand new trilogy from Glenda. Set in 1915 it follows the lives and loves of three women working in a WWI toffee factory in the North-East - a heart-warming novel about love, friendship, secrets, war . . . and toffee! "Filled with characters to capture the hearts and imaginations of readers, this is saga writing of the most perfect kind" The People's Friend
Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel (Headline, Nov 2023) is the third instalment in Glenda's popular cosy crime series set in Scarborough. A murderer plays a chilling game when a group of obsessive crazy golfers arrive in town to compete in a crazy golf tournament. Can hotel landlady Helen Dexter and her rescue greyhound Suki solve the crime?
Glenda lives in the North-East and has written short stories for Take a Break, My Weekly and The People’s Friend. She was commissioned by The People's Friend to write their first weekly soap opera, Riverside. She is also a fan of Coronation Street, running two fan websites and publishing a number of books based on the show. She has talked about her writing widely in the media, including an interview on Woman's Hour.
- “Amazing novels!” Sharon Marshall, ITV This Morning presenter
- "Such a good writer - she's fantastic." Jane Garvey, Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4
