Caroline Smailes

Caroline Smailes appears to make life changing decisions based on passing comments made by Richard and Judy.

Back in 2005, two weeks before she was due to start a PhD in Linguistics, Caroline watched an interview on Richard & Judy where they referred to someone as a 'nearly woman'. Caroline identified with that label and faced her 'now or never' moment. She didn't want to be someone who talked of 'nearly' having done something, she wanted to see if she could write novels and tell stories.

Within that same week, Caroline gave up her funding and her PhD place, enrolled on an MA in Creative Writing and over the next year she wrote In Search of Adam.

Now Caroline and her writer husband have 3 children and live on the Wirral. She can be found online at - www.carolinesmailes.co.uk