A Woman’s Place: Glenda Young

A celebration of women workers for International Women’s Day 8 – 9 March 2021

Tough Women in Tough Times: writing about the north east’s women at the end of World War I

Glenda Young, Author and Blogger

Glenda Young writes gritty sagas set in a northeast mining village in 1919 and her books are published by Headline. The books are standalone and can be read in any order. She has also written TV tie-in books for ITV’s Coronation Street and is an award-winning short story writer. She was one of six finalists in the coveted Clement & Le Frenais comedy award in 2019. Glenda also has a unique claim to fame, she’s the writer of Riverside, a weekly soap opera published in The People’s Friend magazine since 2016.

As well as writing saga novels, Glenda’s first of three fun, cosy crime novels set in Scarborough Murder at the Seaview Hotel will be released in August 2021.