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Carol Lake 
Summary
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 edit
- Lake, Carol (1989). Rosehill: Portrait from a Midlands City. ISBN 9780747503019.[6]
- Lake, Carol (1997). Switchboard Operators. ISBN 9780747534907.[7]
- Lake, Carol (September 2008). Wendy and Her Year of Wonders. ISBN 9781852001339.[8]
- Lake, Carol (November 2009). Those Summers at Moon Farm. ISBN 9781852001414.[9]
- Riley, Sylvia (2019). Winter at the Bookshop: Politics and Poverty. St Ann's in the 1960s. ISBN 9781910170663.
References edit
- ^ "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.