Caroline Smailes was born in Newcastle in 1973. She moved to the North West to study English Literature at Liverpool University. A chance remark on a daytime chat show spurred her to enrol on an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Caroline graduated in 2007 with distinction and won the Michael Schmidt Prize for the best novel portfolio of the year. Her first novel, In Search of Adam, was published in 2007 and she is currently working on her third - a historical novel based on her family roots in Malta.
Caroline is currently an Associate Lecturer for the Open University and lives in the North West with her husband and three children.