Yorkshire-based novelist Linda Green is a publishing phenomenon, writing bestseller after bestseller, setting her stories in recognisable places, and featuring eminently believable, ordinary-yetextraordinary characters with whom readers cannot help but identify. Linda’s latest novel is In Little Stars, a contemporary reimagining of the familiar story in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
‘I was one of those children with an over-active imagination,’ she says. ‘I wrote my first novella, The Time Machine, when I was nine years old. It was a pony-based time-travel thriller. When I left primary school, my teacher Mrs Chandler said she looked forward to reading my first published book. I sent it to her twenty-five years later.
‘My modern-day version of is set in northern England, a place which has been divided
