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Carol Lake is the pen-name of Sylvia Riley, 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.[ citation needed ]

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. [4]

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