Born in North London in 1970 and brought up in Hertfordshire, Linda spent ten years in regional newspaper journalism in London and the Midlands before going freelance in 1998. She has written for The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Times Educational Supplement, Wanderlust, The Big Issue and Community Care Magazine. She started writing fiction the same year and has had a short story published in Best magazine.

She has also worked as co-ordinator of the Birmingham Bureau of Children’s Express, a learning through journalism programme for young people, has taught journalism to schoolchildren for the National Writing Academy and taught creative writing classes to adults for the Workers Educational Association.

Linda’s first novel I DID A BAD THING was published by Headline Review in 2007.

Linda lives in Todmorden, West Yorkshire with her husband Ian and son, Rohan.

Sarah Roberts used to be good.

Then she did something bad. Very bad.

Now, seven years later, she’s trying to make up for her past by leading a respectable life, working as a local newspaper reporter and living with her saintly boyfriend Jonathan. She has no intention of ever doing a bad thing again.

Until Nick walks back into her life.

And suddenly, what’s good and bad aren’t so clear to Sarah any more.

I DID A BAD THING is dark, funny, wicked and true. Because haven’t we all got a guilty secret?