Bolton, Sharon

The English author Sharon Bolton was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, as the oldest of three girls. She grew up in Darwen and attended Darwen Moorland High School. She decided that she wanted to pursue a career in dancing or acting, so she read drama at Loughborough University in Leicestershire. She later worked in PR and advertising before reading business administration at Warwick University, Coventry, without graduating. She met Andrew Burtenshaw at Warwick, and they were married in 1992. Bolton dropped out of university and moved to London with her husband where she continued to work in PR and advertising.