The Taking of Annie Thorne

C. J. Tudor was born in Salisbury and grew up in Nottingham, where she still lives with her partner and young daughter. She left school at sixteen and has had a variety of jobs over the years, including trainee reporter, radio scriptwriter, shop assistant, ad agency copywriter and voiceover. In the early nineties, she fell into a job as a television presenter for a show on Channel 4 called Moviewatch.

While writing her sensational debut novel, Тhe Chalk Man, she ran a dog-walking business, walking over twenty dogs a week as well as looking after her little girl.