Linda Newbery is a British author, who began writing as a young adult author but has now broadened her range to encompass all ages. Now a full-time writer, she published her first novel Run with the Hare in 1988, while still working as an English teacher in a comprehensive school.
Linda is a regular tutor for the Arvon Foundation and is a member of the Society of Authors and the Scattered Authors' Society.
Several of her novels have historical se...
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Linda Newbery is a British author, who began writing as a young adult author but has now broadened her range to encompass all ages. Now a full-time writer, she published her first novel Run with the Hare in 1988, while still working as an English teacher in a comprehensive school.
Linda is a regular tutor for the Arvon Foundation and is a member of the Society of Authors and the Scattered Authors' Society.
Several of her novels have historical settings. Her Shouting Wind trilogy follows the women of one family through three generations; The Shouting Wind tells the story of Kay, a WAAF in the Second World War, The Cliff Path follows her hippie daughter Abigail, and A Fear of Heights completes the trilogy with the life of Abigail's own daughter Tamsin, an engineering student in the 1980s.
The Shell House links two stories, one set in the present, the other during the First World War, through the setting of a now-ruined house in Epping Forest (based on Copped Hall). Greg, in the present...
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