Caro Fraser

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Caro Fraser was born in Carlisle in 1953, but moved to Glasgow shortly afterwards and was brought up there until her mid-teens, attending Glasgow High School for Girls. When she was 15 her father, George MacDonald Fraser, author of the 'Flashman' books, wrote the first book in the series and the family moved to the Isle of Man, where she went to the Buchan School.

She started writing professionally in 1992, before that she was a commercial lawyer, and before that an advertising copywriter.

Her first novel The Pupil was based on her time spent in pupillage, which is something akin to an apprenticeship for becoming a barrister, was written largely from a male standpoint. The novel deals with the trials and fortunes of Anthony Cross during his six month pupillage at Caper Court, and the various characters he meets in the eccentric world of the Inns of Court in London. Chief among these is Leo Davies, an attractive, talented, charismatic and extremely successful barrister, who happens to be bisexual, and under whose spell Anthony quickly falls.

Woody Allen once said that the advantage of being bisexual is that it doubles your chances of a date on Saturday night, and by the same reasoning a bisexual character doubles the number of possible romantic plotlines, something she exploited to the full in the Caper Court series of novels, of which there are presently six, The Pupil, Judicial Whispers, An Immoral Code, A Hallowed Place, A Perfect Obsession and A Calculating Heart.

She has written six 'stand-alone' novels, which are regarded as romantic fiction for the thinking woman - The Trustees, An Inheritance, Beyond Forgiveness, A Little Learning, Familiar Rooms In Darkness and A World Apart.