After graduating from Leeds University and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, her early work was with The Bristol Old Vic, The Royal Court and Traverse Theatres, from which she went on to become a founder member and first woman director of the Joint Stock Theatre Company. She was an Associate Director of The Royal Court Theatre, for which she directed many World Premieres. Carole also writes for radio, television and film. On radio, she is well known as co-writer of the Radio 4 hit series “Ladies of Letters” with Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge, which has run for seven series to date and is currently being developed for television. Series seven “ Ladies of Letters Go Global” aired on Radio 4 in January 2006. BBC Worldwide publish the ladies books and audio-books very successfully. Carole has published and broadcast many short stories and pieces of cultural journalism, including features for the Independent, the Guardian, the Express, The Sunday Times, The Mail and a regular column for The Saturday Independent, “My Lofty Life”.
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Her first film as Producer/Writer“ f2point8” was short listed for a BAFTA, and has shown at festivals round the world. “Lofty Life” a short animated film, was completed in 2005 with an award from UK Film Council , is now appearing in global film festivals, including the LA short Film Festival , Raindance , Clermont Ferrand, Positano, Dublin, Leeds, Cambridge and Reading and is being developed as an animated TV series Carole’s most recent novel is the political satire, Hard Choices.
Hard Choices was published in July 2003 by Aurora Metro Press and immediately short-listed for The Silver Booker. It came out in paperback in 2004. Carole is currently working on an adaptation of Missing, part one of The Warfleet Chronicles, for TV. She is an AHRB Research Fellow of Kings College London, where she is making a study on Women & Serial Killers. | 
