Glenda Young

Glenda’s debut novel, Belle of the Back Streets will be published by Headline on November 1, 2018. It is one of three saga novels that will be published by Headline between 2018 and 2020.

Glenda is a prize-winning short story writer. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines including Take a Break, My Weekly, The People’s Friend and The People’s Friend Fiction Special. She is author of the first ever weekly soap opera, Riverside, for The People’s Friend magazine – the longest running women’s magazine in the world.

A life-long fan of the soap opera Coronation Street, Glenda runs two Coronation Street fan websites. The Coronation Street Blog is praised by the Manchester Evening News as ‘Excellent’ and ‘Essential Reading for Street Fans’. The site is a finalist in the UK Blog Awards 2018.

Glenda also runs and owns the internet’s first and original Coronation Street fan website, online since 1995.