Aifric Campbell
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Life
She was a convent schoolgirl in Dublin. She worked as an au pairAu pair
An au pair is a domestic assistant from a foreign country working for, and living as part of, a host family. Typically, au pairs take on a share of the family's responsibility for childcare as well as some housework, and receive a small monetary allowance for personal use...
, in Sweden
Sweden
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She graduated from the University of Göteborg in Linguistics.
She was an investment banker in the City of London
City of London
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for 13 years.
She studied psychotherapy and creative writing, at the University of East Anglia
University of East Anglia
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She lives in Sussex
Sussex
Sussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West...
with her husband, and son.
Reviews
The Semantics of Murder is at least the third work of fiction to be inspired by the life and death of Richard MontagueRichard MontagueRichard Merett Montague was an American mathematician and philosopher.-Career:At the University of California, Berkeley, Montague earned an B.A. in Philosophy in 1950, an M.A. in Mathematics in 1953, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy 1957, the latter under the direction of the mathematician and logician...
, a professor of philosophy at UCLA whose 1971 murder was never solved. In addition to doing brilliant work in logic and philosophy of language, Montague was a successful real estate investor, an accomplished church organist, and—notoriously—an extremely promiscuous gay man. The heterogeneous elements of his life, and the continuing mystery surrounding his death, have proven seductive for a number of novelists, including David Berlinski, Samuel R. Delany, and now Aifric Campbell, who makes her debut with this book.