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Linda MacDonald was born and brought up in Cockermouth, Cumbria. She was educated at the local grammar school and later at Goldsmiths’, University of London where she studied for a BA in psychology and then a PGCE in biology and science. She taught in a secondary school in Croydon for eleven years before taking some time out to write and paint. In 1990 she returned to teaching at a sixth form college in south-east London where she taught psychology. For over twenty-five years she was also a visiting tutor in the psychology department at Goldsmiths’. She has now given up teaching to focus fully on writing.

Her four published novels Meeting Lydia, A Meeting of a Different Kind, The Alone Alternative and The Man in the Needlecord Jacket can ea
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Linda MacDonald Meeting Lydia has been turned into an abridged audiobook. Produced by Essential Music and narrated by the talented voice actress Harriet Carmichael, i…moreMeeting Lydia has been turned into an abridged audiobook. Produced by Essential Music and narrated by the talented voice actress Harriet Carmichael, it is expected to be released by the end of November 2016.

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Meeting Lydia

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Eight Years On!

It has been eight years since the publication of my last novel, The Man in the Needlecord Jacket. At last we are on the brink of releasing number five: The Tango Chain.
The intervening years have seen Covid, a house and location move, a new garden, a dog and a husband, each distracting in their own special way, causing the writing to take second place.
But slowly and surely the pages accumulated, t Read more of this blog post »
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The Tango Chain by Linda MacDonald
"Tango, the passionate dance I’m left wanting to try!

I can’t say I’ve ever been particularly drawn to Tango, but the way it’s written in The Tango Chain makes me want to scour the local Facebook groups to find a class!

I loved reading the perspectives" Read more of this review »
The Tango Chain by Linda  MacDonald
"This was such an engaging story of two very real women, both in the grip of obsession, contemplating changes and facing complications at different stages in their lives. Rachel needs to move on with a fresh start, but is caught up in an intense relat" Read more of this review »
The Tango Chain by Linda  MacDonald
"I was kindly sent a free copy of this book as part of a book tour in exchange for an honest review. This wasn’t my usual type of read but I found the book pleasantly engaging and I am quite interested to read the rest of the authors books now. The st" Read more of this review »
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"Taryn is a strong character, yet she still seems to be driven by the events of her past (which we get a glimpse into, but are told in more detail in MacDonald’s previous books). She is in a relationship with the rather set-in-his-ways Neil. A retired" Read more of this review »
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“There isn't a man alive who doesn't have the potential to philander, given the right material to philander with." Taryn in A Meeting of a Different Kind”
― Linda MacDonald

“Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life's the other way round.”
― David Lodge
tags: life

“To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,
Such seems your beauty still.”
― William Shakespeare

“No one has told Jon's wife that he and I were once in love, I suppose?"
Holly shook her head.
"I'd rather they didn't, then."
"of course not, my dear. I'll see to it. The child's nice, I think."
"Nice," said Fleur, "but not important.”
― Galsworthy John, The Forsyte Saga

“He went up to the globe and gave it a spin. It emitted a faint creak and moved about one inch, bringing into his purview a daddy long legs which had died on it in latitude 44.”
― Galsworthy John

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