Glenda Young

Glenda Young is a British author of historical sagas set in Sunderland whose warm, powerful stories bring the communities of the North East to vivid life. She lives in Sunderland and grew up in the village of Ryhope, where she credits her local library with giving her a love of books. She runs two popular Coronation Street fan websites alongside her fiction career. Young's novels include Belle of the Back Streets, The Tuppenny Child, Pearl of Pit Lane, The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon, The Paper Mill Girl, and The Miner's Lass. Belle of the Back Streets follows Meg Sutcliffe as she works the back streets of Ryhope with her horse and cart after the First World War. Her sagas are characterised by their strong female protagonists, their vivid evocation of working-class life in the early twentieth century, and their celebration of community resilience in the face of hardship. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers heartwarming, dramatically powerful family sagas rooted in the real history and landscape of the North East — stories of women who find strength, love, and independence against the odds.