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Informationen zum Autor SUSAN 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. Klappentext Marvellously written short novella - a family story as evocative, gripping and Gothic as best-selling ghost story, THE WOMAN IN BLACK. The farmhouse was called The Beacon and they had been born and reared there, May, Colin, Frank and Berenice. May had been the clever daughter and escaped to go to university. But now she is back, the spinster daughter, the one who stayed, who nursed her father and mother in their old age. Now Frank is the one who got away. He married and moved on. But why does no one dare even to mention Frank's name? Zusammenfassung Colin and Berenice married locally. May went to university in London, but came home within a year and never left again. Only Frank, quiet, watchful Frank, got away. He left for Fleet Street and a career in journalism but its the publication of a book about his childhood that brings the fame and money he craves - and tears his family apart.
