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English author
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]
Works
Riley, Sylvia (2019). Winter at the Bookshop: Politics and Poverty. St Ann's in the 1960s .
ISBN
9781910170663 .
References
^
"Winter at the Bookshop, book launch with Sylvia Riley" . Five Leaves Bookshop . Retrieved 1 February 2020 .
^
a
b 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 .
^ 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 .
^ Depository, Book.
"Switchboard Operators : Carol Lake : 9780747534907" . www.bookdepository.co.uk .
^ Riley, Sylvia (2019). Winter at the Bookshop: Politics and Poverty. St Ann's in the 1960s . Nottingham: Five Leaves Publications.
ISBN
9781910170663 .
^
"Rosehill: Portraits From A Midlands City" . isbndb.com . Retrieved 30 December 2019 .
^
"Switchboard Operators" . isbndb.com . Retrieved 30 December 2019 .
^
"Wendy and Her Year of Wonders" . isbnsearch.org . Retrieved 30 December 2019 .
^
"Those Summers at Moon Farm" . isbnsearch.org . Retrieved 30 December 2019 .