Carol Lake Explained

Sylvia Riley, better known by her pen-name Carol Lake, is an English author.[1] She was the winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1989 with Rosehill: Portrait from a Midlands City.[2] [3] 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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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Winter at the Bookshop, book launch with Sylvia Riley . Five Leaves Bookshop . 1 February 2020.
  2. Coming out with something. Clapp. Susannah. London Review of Books. 6 July 1989. 2019-12-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20191223032927/https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v11/n13/susannah-clapp/coming-out-with-something. 2019-12-23. 11. 13.
  3. Book: Place and the Politics of Identity. Keith. Michael. Pile. Steve. 1993. 2005. 7: Reading Rosehill: Community, identity, and inner-city Derby. https://books.google.com/books?id=DsWIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA115. Routledge. 9781134877423. 2019-12-30.
  4. Web site: Switchboard Operators : Carol Lake : 9780747534907. Book. Depository. www.bookdepository.co.uk.
  5. Book: Riley . Sylvia . Winter at the Bookshop: Politics and Poverty. St Ann's in the 1960s . 2019 . Five Leaves Publications . Nottingham . 9781910170663 .
  6. Web site: Rosehill: Portraits From A Midlands City. 2019-12-30. isbndb.com.
  7. Web site: Switchboard Operators. 2019-12-30. isbndb.com.
  8. Web site: Wendy and Her Year of Wonders. 2019-12-30. isbnsearch.org.
  9. Web site: Those Summers at Moon Farm. 2019-12-30. isbnsearch.org.

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