Jane Campbell (writer)
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Jane Campbell (born 1942 in Hoylake) is a British writer. Her first work is the short story collection Cat Brushing, published in 2022, which the New York Times compared to the work of Edna O'Brien and Muriel Spark. Her debut novel Interpretations of Love was published in the summer of 2024.
Jane Campbell was born in Hoylake near Liverpool and spent the first four years of her life growing up with her great-grandmother and mother. Her father was a prisoner of war in Austria during the Second World War and returned to England in 1946. As he did not like the newly introduced state health system (National Health Service), he decided to emigrate to Africa with his family. Campbell spent her childhood in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, where her father worked as a doctor.[1][2]
She showed a passion for writing from a young age and began writing poems and stories at the age of eight. After returning to England, she studied English and English literature at Oxford University.[3]
Campbell then spent fifteen years living with her British husband in Bermuda, where she took correspondence courses in psychology at the University of Toronto. After her divorce in her late 30s, she returned to Oxford. She completed a master's degree in Applied Social Sciences and trained as a group analyst. She worked as a therapist in her practice in Oxford for almost forty years of her life. Jane Campbell is the mother of four children.[2]