She spent nine years on the staff of Good Housekeeping and is now a regular contributor to its health pages. She wrote Traditional Remedies, a guide to folk medicine (Ebury, 1994) and was also consultant editor for the Good Housekeeping Book of Parenting (Ebury, 1995). She has worked as a volunteer at a special needs playgroup and for the Dyspraxia Foundation. Linda was born in 1948 and read English at Girton College, Cambridge. She lives in Reading with her husband, son and two daughters aged from 15 to 22 and her one-year-old grandson.