Carole completed the six-month Guardian/UEA novel writing course taught by Bernardine Evaristo, who imbued her with such a love of writing fiction that she abandoned her career in law to undertake an MA in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, followed by a PHD in Creative Writing at Swansea University. Carole was a London Library Emerging Writer 2020/21.
The Silence Project is her first published novel and was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize Peggy Chapman-Andrews First Novel Award 2020 and highly commended by the judges. Is is published by Corvus, an imprint of Atlantic Books, in February 2023.
Carole lives in Pembrokeshire with her husband and two rescue dogs.
