Celia Brayfield is an English author, academic and cultural commentator. Celia Brayfield is best known as a novelist. After early success with the international bestseller Pearls, she focused on contemporary social comedies set in millennial London and its suburbs. In 2005 she joined the staff of Brunel University London to set up the creative writing programme there, becoming reader in 2006 and associate reader in 2015. She is also a senior lecturer at Bath Spa University and a member of the Higher Education Committee of the National Association of Writers in Education.
