You can see anything from the latest glossy paperback to a mildewed pamphlet from pre-Independence days you can find bound volumes of Walt Disney comics sitting cheek-by-jowl with hardbacks of the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. My ancestral home in India is no exception: it is more than a hundred years old and is literally a refugee camp for books. Old houses tend to collect books, especially if the inhabitants are educated and cultured. Librarian's Note: There is more than one author by this name. Hill has recently founded her own publishing company, Long Barn Books, which has published one work of fiction per year. Their first daughter, Jessica, was born in 1977 and their second daughter, Clemency, was born in 1985. In 1975 she married Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells and they moved to Stratford upon Avon. This was followed in quick succession by A Change for the Better, I'm the King of the Castle, The Albatross and other stories, Strange Meeting, The Bird of Night, A Bit of Singing and Dancing and In the Springtime of Year, all written and published between 19. Her next novel Gentleman and Ladies was published in 1968. The novel was criticised by The Daily Mail for its sexual content, with the suggestion that writing in this style was unsuitable for a 'schoolgirl'. By this time she had already written her first novel, The Enclosure which was published by Hutchinson in her first year at university. At Barrs Hill she took A levels in English, French, History and Latin, proceeding to an English degree at King's College London. Her fellow pupils included Jennifer Page, the first Chief Executive of the Millennium Dome. Hill states that she attended a girls’ grammar school, Barr's Hill. Her family left Scarborough in 1958 and moved to Coventry where her father worked in car and aircraft factories. She attended Scarborough Convent School, where she became interested in theatre and literature.

Her hometown was later referred to in her novel A Change for the Better (1969) and some short stories especially 'Cockles and Mussels'.

Susan Hill was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire in 1942.

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