Glenda Young

Glenda Young is an exciting talent writing gripping and heart-wrenching stories and is a top 50 paperback bestseller.

Secrets of The Toffee Factory Girls (Headline, May 2025) is the second mesmerising novel in a trilogy that began with The Toffee Factory Girls. 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 series about love, friendship, secrets, war . . . and toffee! It’s inspired by a real life (but long gone) toffee factory in the northeast of England. Horner's Toffee Factory of Chester-le-Street was world famous, producing the Dainty Dinah brand of toffee. 

The People's Friend writes "Filled with characters to capture the hearts and imagines of readers, this is saga writing of the most perfect kind."

Deadly Dancing at the Seaview Hotel (Headline, Sept 2025) is the fourth instalment in Glenda's popular cosy crime series set in Scarborough. Helen Dexter's Seaview Hotel plays host to a dance troupe when a murder takes place. Aided by her rescue greyhound Suki and the Seaview Hotel cook Jean (a no-nonsense Yorkshire woman you don't want to mess with!), Helen steps out and puts her best foot forward, but can she 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.

Glenda Young is co-represented by Caroline Sheldon and Safae El-Ouahabi.

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