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.
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