Aifric Campbell

Born in Ireland, Aifric Campbell moved to Sweden where she completed a Linguistics degree and lectured in semantics at the University of Gothenborg. She spent 13 years as an investment banker in the City of London before leaving to study psychotherapy and creative writing. She made her literary début in 2008 with the novel The Semantics of Murder, a story loosely inspired by the unsolved murder of Richard Montague, a professor of philosophy at UCLA. Campbell now lives in Sussex with her husband and son.