Jane Campbell

Jane Campbell was born in Hoylake (Wirral) in 1942. In 1948 her family moved to Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) and four years later Jane went to boarding school in Cape Town. In 1959 she spent 18 months at Cape Town University before reading English at St Hugh's College, Oxford. After marrying a fellow undergraduate, she moved to Bermuda. In 1980 she returned to Oxford where she took a post-graduate degree in Applied Social Science and trained at the Institute of Group Analysis (London). She  had a Private Practice in Oxford and for 20 years worked as co-director of a part-time postgraduate training leading to an MSc Group Psychotherapy (OBU). In 2017, she sent a short story, 'Cat-Brushing’, to the London Review of Books, who published it. She then wrote a collection of short stories about the experiences of older women which was published by riverrun / Quercus in the UK in July 2022. Grove Atlantic published the US edition in August 2022. In July 2024 her debut novel “Interpretations of Love” was published by riverrun/Quercus and in August 2024 the US edition was published by Grove. Translations of both books have been published in Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. Jane has now retired from Group Analysis and, while a frequent visitor to Bermuda, lives full time in Oxford.