Julie Caplin

Bred but not born in Yorkshire, England, JULES WAKE considers herself an honorary Yorkshire woman and despite living in the Chilterns still misses proper hills. She's wanted to be a writer forever and blames this on her grandmother taking her at a young age to the Brontë's parsonage in Haworth. After reading English at the University of East Anglia, she found herself in the glamorous and deeply shallow world of PR, which she rather enjoyed, and spent a number of years honing her fiction writing skills on press releases. Upon completing a creative writing course and finding no local writing group, she set up the Tring Writers' Circle. As a result it was incumbent upon her to set a good example and actually write, which was rather fortunate as with a genuine allergy to cleaning, she finds writing offers the perfect displacement activity. Talk to Me is her debut novel.