About Carol Lake
Carol Lake was a British writer.
Sylvia Riley, better known by her pen-name Carol Lake, is an English author. She was the winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize 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.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Carol Lake. https://biography.guide/carol-lake/
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