Caroline Gilfillan

Caroline Gilfillan grew up in Sussex, within earshot of the sea. She spent most of her young adult life in London, where she played music in various groups, including The Stepney Sisters, one of the first women-only bands, and joined several inspirational writers’ groups. After taking an MA in Creative Writing at Lancaster University, she taught creative writing in universities and communities. She spent a decade in North Norfolk before moving to Cumbria.

Her murder mystery novels, The Terrace and The Peasmarsh Players (to be published on 30 September 2020), are set in beautiful North Norfolk. As someone who grew up reading and rereading the books of Agatha Christie, she wanted to write a murder mystery series in a rural setting updated for the 21st century. Rags Whistledown, her private investigator, is fresh, flawed and funky.

She’s also a poet who has published four collections of poetry, the two most recent of which are Pepys (Hawthorn Press) and Poet in Boots (Brewster Press). She received an Arts Council England grant to develop a novel set in the Second World War, which will soon appear in print. She’s a member of the Inprint collective, producing collaborative work between writers and visual artists, and has been involved in creative projects with the Paston Heritage Society, who explore and share the history of the Paston family in North Norfolk. A winner of several national short story competitions, she writes because she loves it.

She also writes plays and songs, and performs in the South Lakeland area of Cumbria. To find out more about her poetry and fiction, visit www.carolinegilfillan.co.uk