Carol Lake
Sylvia Riley, better known by her pen-name Carol Lake, is 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. Provided by Wikipedia