Carol Lake

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Sylvia Riley, better known by her pen-name Carol Lake, is an English author. [1] She was the winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize [2] in 1989 with Rosehill: Portrait from a Midlands City. [3] [2] She also wrote Switchboard Operators, upon which the BBC drama series The Hello Girls was based. [4]

During the 1960s, Riley was a member of the International Marxist Group in Nottingham, where she lived and worked at the bookshop run by Pat Jordan. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Winter at the Bookshop, book launch with Sylvia Riley". Five Leaves Bookshop. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  2. 1 2 Keith, Michael; Pile, Steve, eds. (2005) [1993]. "7: Reading Rosehill: Community, identity, and inner-city Derby". Place and the Politics of Identity. Routledge. ISBN   9781134877423 . Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  3. ↑ Clapp, Susannah (6 July 1989). "Coming out with something". London Review of Books . Vol. 11, no. 13. Archived from the original on 23 December 2019. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  4. ↑ Depository, Book. "Switchboard Operators : Carol Lake : 9780747534907". www.bookdepository.co.uk.
  5. ↑ Riley, Sylvia (2019). Winter at the Bookshop: Politics and Poverty. St Ann's in the 1960s. Nottingham: Five Leaves Publications. ISBN   9781910170663.
  6. ↑ "Rosehill: Portraits From A Midlands City". isbndb.com. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  7. ↑ "Switchboard Operators". isbndb.com. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  8. ↑ "Wendy and Her Year of Wonders". isbnsearch.org. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  9. ↑ "Those Summers at Moon Farm". isbnsearch.org. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
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