Susan Hill
Susan Hill
Susan Hill CBEis an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include The Woman in Black, The Mist in the Mirror and I'm the King of the Castle for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empirein the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to literature...
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Date of Birth5 February 1942
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I'm especially outraged they didn't even wait until the deadline, ... I'm just so disappointed. I understand that in the whole scheme of things, it's just a sidewalk, but it's still something that's important to residents.
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What has us most upset is the short time frame and short notice we were given about this, ... They said they were going to tear up our brick sidewalks, and that we pretty much didn't have a choice in the matter.
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I was an only child who was never really good at anything else. I had no other option. I could write; I wanted to write; I wrote. Otherwise, I was unemployable.
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Though they don't always have to be set in fog, weather is incredibly important in ghost stories. As is suspense: you've got to turn the screw very, very slowly.
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