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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]

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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

• 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.

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