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Book SynopsisSUSAN HILL has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. Her novels include
Strange Meeting,
I'm the King of the Castle,
In the Springtime of the Year and
The Mist in the Mirror. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels. The play of her ghost story
The Woman in Black is one of the longest running in the history of London's West End. In 2020 she was awarded a damehood (DBE) for services to literature. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.
Trade ReviewHighly unsettling * Daily Telegraph *
All the ingredients for the perfect English crime novel are here * Daily Mail *
A tantalising mystery * Sunday Telegraph *
Captures sinister atmosphere brilliantly * Spectator *
For the first time in years, P.D. James has serious competition * Literary Review *
