Campbell attended a convent school in Dublin. While still a young girl she was the owner of Táin Mór, which won the
Irish Greyhound Derby in 1976. She worked as an
au pair in
Sweden, where she graduated from the
University of Gothenburg in Linguistics. She worked as an investment banker at
Morgan Stanley for 13 years, where she became the first female managing director of a trading team, an experience which inspired her novel
On the Floor. She studied
psychotherapy and creative writing, at the
University of East Anglia. She lives in
Sussex with her husband and her son. ==Bibliography==