Carol Lake

Carol Lake is the pen-name of Sylvia Riley, an English author. She was the winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1989 with Rosehill: Portrait from a Midlands City. 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.

Works

• Rosehill: Portrait from a Midlands City. 1989. ISBN 9780747503019.
• Switchboard Operators. 1997. ISBN 9780747534907.
• Wendy and Her Year of Wonders. September 2008. ISBN 9781852001339.
• Those Summers at Moon Farm. ISBN 9781852001414.

• Winter at the Bookshop: Politics and Poverty. St Ann's in the 1960s. 2019. ISBN 9781910170663.