Carol Topolski is a novelist. Before becoming a full-time writer she was a practising psychoanalytic psychologist and she drew on her experiences in writing her first novel, Monster Love which was published in 2008. According to The Guardian it shocked and impressed in equal measure' and has been compared to Lionel Shrivers We Need to Talk About Kevin. Her second novel Do No Harm was published in 2010. Born in 1949, her mother was a child psychologist, her father was scientist and author Kit Pedler. She studied English at Sussex University and is a graduate of the prestigious UEA Creative Writing Course. She has had has many varied jobs, spending ten years working as a probation officer and a further twelve years as a censor woking for the BBFC. She has also set up a Rape Crisis Center in Canterbury. She has two daughters and a granddaughter and now lives in Clapham, South London with her husband of 39 years who is a Queen's Counsel. [More at Wikipedia]

January 1st, 1949 in (Age 75)