This Bright Life

Karen Campbell is a Scottish writer of contemporary fiction who has written nine novels to date. Her first four published novels were police procedurals in the Anna Cameron series, set in Glasgow, partly inspired by her prior career as a police officer. Moving away from the crime genre, her fifth novel This Is Where I Am is about the unlikely friendship between Abdi, a Somali asylum-seeker, and a Glaswegian widow Deborah. Her subsequent novels include: Rise, The Sound of the Hours, Paper Cup and This Bright Life.

Caroline began her career in the iconic Bill Forsythe feature film Gregory’s Girl and has continued in her own iconic way ever since. More feature films, many TV series and the occasional foray into theatre has kept Caroline on her acting toes, including a lead role in the multi award-winning radio drama Westway for eight years. Caroline has also narrated countless audiobooks and voiced many TV and radio commercials.