Close to Home is Beverley Craven's fourth studio album, her first in ten years.

Craven abandoned her music career in 2000, a mixture of writer's block and the need to take care of her three young daughters.

In 2004 she made a slow comeback, doing a handful of live appearances, but was shortly after diagnosed with breast cancer.

Two of the songs directly draw from her breast cancer diagnosis: "Rainbows" and "Without Me", which was written for her daughters.

The song "All Yours" was re-recorded by Craven, with altered lyrics, for Nigel Hitchcock's 2013 album Smoothitch and renamed "You're Mine".