Linda is an accomplished author and lecturer, in both Young Adult
and adult fiction. She served on the 2003 jury for the Governor-General’s
Literary Award and has twice been chosen finalist for the CBC
Literary Awards.
The winner of the Canadian Living National Short Story Award,
her most recent book, Search for the Moon King’s
Daughter (2002) was awarded the Silver Seal for
the Mr. Christie’s Book Award, the McNally Robinson Young
Book Award, and the Canadian Library Association Honour Book Award.
In the US it has been selected by the ALA Best Books for Young
Adults and the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.
Internationally it is a title for The White Ravens 2003.
In
a departure from YA, Linda’s latest work, The
Linnet Bird is a dramatic work of adult historical
fiction, an impossible-to-put-down story of one woman’s
re-invention, set in the underworld of 19th century Liverpool
and the rigid society of Colonial India.
Although a Canadian, Linda has long had a fascination with the
lives of British women in the 19th century. While researching
this book, she delved deeper and deeper into the complicated world
the British “memsahibs” were forced to live in during
the time of British rule in India. “There are layers and
layers of duplicity and snobbery, of heartbreak and hope within
the societal enclaves the British women made for themselves amidst
the beauty and squalor of this new home. There were women who
embraced the differences they found, and those who tried to pretend
these differences did not exist by hiding behind a false “little
England” that they carved out of the chaotic and mysterious
background of India. I personally find a deep sense of wonder
and admiration for the women who found a way to survive within
these challenges.”
Headline Books, UK and Commonwealth,
including Canada
Crown Publishers, U.S.
Uniboek, Netherlands
Bertelsmann Group, Germany
Plon, France
Mondadori, Spain
Bertelsmann Group, Poland
Bertelsmann Group, Portugal
Damm, Norway
Her
next novel, The Moonlit Cage, is set
in 19th century Afghanistan and England.
Headline Books, UK and Commonwealth Bertelsmann, Germany
Plon, France
Uniboek, Netherlands
Crown Publishers, U.S.
Linda is currently at work on her next book which has been sold
to Headline UK in a two book contract.
In
a departure from YA, Linda’s latest work, The
Linnet Bird is a dramatic work of adult historical
fiction, an impossible-to-put-down story of one woman’s
re-invention, set in the underworld of 19th century Liverpool
and the rigid society of Colonial India.
Her
next novel, The Moonlit Cage, is set
in 19th century Afghanistan and England.