Carol Lake

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.

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]

Works
  • Lake, Carol (1989). Rosehill: Portrait from a Midlands City. ISBN 9780747503019.[5]
  • Lake, Carol (1997). Switchboard Operators. ISBN 9780747534907.[6]
  • Lake, Carol (September 2008). Wendy and Her Year of Wonders. ISBN 9781852001339.[7]
  • Those Summers at Moon Farm. ISBN 9781852001414.[8]
  • Riley, Sylvia (2019). Winter at the Bookshop: Politics and Poverty. St Ann's in the 1960s. ISBN 9781910170663.

References
  1. "Winter at the Bookshop, book launch with Sylvia Riley". Five Leaves Bookshop. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  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. Riley, Sylvia (2019). Winter at the Bookshop: Politics and Poverty. St Ann's in the 1960s. Nottingham: Five Leaves Publications. ISBN 9781910170663.
  5. "Rosehill: Portraits From A Midlands City". isbndb.com. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  6. "Switchboard Operators". isbndb.com. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  7. "Wendy and Her Year of Wonders". isbnsearch.org. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  8. "Those Summers at Moon Farm". isbnsearch.org. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
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