![]() 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. The Woman In Black is both a brilliant exercise in atmosphere and controlled horror and a delicious spine-tingler-proof positive that this neglected genre, the ghost story, isn't dead after all. The routine formalities he anticipates give way to a tumble of events and secrets more sinister and terrifying than any nightmare: the rocking chair in the deserted nursery, the eerie sound of a pony and trap, a child's scream in the fog, and most dreadfully-and for Kipps most tragically- The Woman In Black. ![]() Set on the obligatory English moor, on an isolated causeway, the story has as its hero Arthur Kipps, an up-and-coming young solicitor who has come north from London to attend the funeral and settle the affairs of Mrs. ![]() What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really literate, first-class thriller-one that chills the body, but warms the soul with plot, perception, and language at once astute and vivid? In other words, a ghost story written by Jane Austen?Īlas, we cannot give you Austen, but Susan Hill's remarkable Woman In Black comes as close as our era can provide. ![]()
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