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Susan Hill (1) (1942–)

Auteur de La dame en noir

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106+ oeuvres 15,831 utilisateurs 909 critiques 39 Favoris

A propos de l'auteur

Susan Hill was born in Scarborough, United Kingdom on February 5, 1942. She received a degree in English from King's College in London in 1963. Her first book, The Enclosure, was published during her first year at university. She worked as a freelance journalist between 1963 and 1968 and has been a afficher plus monthly columnist for the Daily Telegraph since 1977. She founded her own publishing company, Long Barn Books, in 1996 and publishes a literary magazine called Books and Company. She has written works of fiction and non-fiction as well as children's books. She also edits short story compilations. Her works include Gentleman and Ladies, A Change for the Better, The Woman in Black, The Mist in the Mirror, and the Simon Serrailler Crime Novel series. She has won numerous awards including a Somerset Maugham Award for I'm the King of the Castle, the Whitbread Novel Award for The Bird of Night, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for The Albatross, and the Smarties Prize for Can It Be True? (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins

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Œuvres de Susan Hill

La dame en noir (1983) 2,664 exemplaires
Meurtres à Lafferton (2004) 1,345 exemplaires
Howards End is on the Landing (2009) 1,127 exemplaires
La malédiction de manderley (1993) 857 exemplaires
The Pure in Heart (2005) 727 exemplaires
The Man in the Picture (2007) 644 exemplaires
The Small Hand (2010) 578 exemplaires
I'm the King of the Castle (1970) 508 exemplaires
The Mist in the Mirror (1992) 492 exemplaires
Des ombres dans la rue (2010) 470 exemplaires
The Betrayal of Trust (2012) 443 exemplaires
A Question of Identity (2012) 367 exemplaires
Strange Meeting (1971) 351 exemplaires
The Soul of Discretion (2015) 293 exemplaires
Dolly (2012) 218 exemplaires
The Comforts of Home (2018) 205 exemplaires
The Beacon (2008) 188 exemplaires
Un printemps provisoire (1973) 169 exemplaires
The Benefit of Hindsight (2019) 154 exemplaires
The Bird of Night (1972) 137 exemplaires
The Random House Book of Ghost Stories (1991) — Editor/Contributor — 135 exemplaires
The Magic Apple Tree: A Country Year (1982) 134 exemplaires
The Small Hand & Dolly (2010) 130 exemplaires
Air and Angels (1991) 124 exemplaires
Printer's Devil Court (2014) 122 exemplaires
A Change of Circumstance (2021) 104 exemplaires
A Kind Man (2011) 103 exemplaires
The Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories (1990) — Directeur de publication — 100 exemplaires
A Bit of Singing and Dancing (1600) 84 exemplaires
Go Away, Bad Dreams (1985) 80 exemplaires
The Service of Clouds (1600) 79 exemplaires
The Albatross (1971) 69 exemplaires
Through the Kitchen Window (1980) 62 exemplaires
A Breach of Security (2014) 61 exemplaires
The Battle for Gullywith (2008) 59 exemplaires
Lanterns Across the Snow (1987) 59 exemplaires
A Change for the Better (1969) 45 exemplaires
The Glass Angels (1991) 45 exemplaires
Black Sheep (2013) 45 exemplaires
Gentleman and Ladies (1968) 43 exemplaires
The Penguin Book of Contemporary Women's Short Stories (1995) — Directeur de publication — 37 exemplaires
Can It Be True? (1988) 37 exemplaires
King of Kings (1993) 31 exemplaires
Beware Beware (1993) 31 exemplaires
Through the Garden Gate (1986) 31 exemplaires
From the Heart (2017) 30 exemplaires
The Spirit of the Cotswolds (1750) 29 exemplaires
The Second Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories (1997) — Directeur de publication — 27 exemplaires
Hunger (2013) 27 exemplaires
Hero (2016) 26 exemplaires
Backyard Bedtime (2001) 22 exemplaires
Family (1990) 21 exemplaires
The Christmas Collection (1994) 20 exemplaires
Shakespeare Country (1987) 19 exemplaires
Woman in Black (Macmillan Readers) (2005) 18 exemplaires
Farthing House: And Other Stories (2006) 16 exemplaires
Ghost Stories (1983) 16 exemplaires
Crystal (2012) 16 exemplaires
The Woman in Black (1990) 14 exemplaires
Friends Next Door (Racers) (1992) 13 exemplaires
The Best of Books and Company (2010) — Directeur de publication — 12 exemplaires
Revenge (Simon Serrailler) (2019) 9 exemplaires
Reflections from a Garden (1995) 8 exemplaires
One Night at a Time (1984) 8 exemplaires
Mother's Magic (1986) 6 exemplaires
Tres historias de fantasmas (1900) 5 exemplaires
Irish Twins (2014) 5 exemplaires
Old Haunts (2018) 5 exemplaires
The Lighting of the Lamps (1987) 4 exemplaires
People: Essays & Poems (1983) 3 exemplaires
Septimus Honeydew (1990) 3 exemplaires
Kobieta w czerni. Raczka (2021) 2 exemplaires
Stories from Codling Village (1990) 2 exemplaires
Phantomschmerzen 2 exemplaires
The Sound of Footsteps (2023) 2 exemplaires
Reader, I Married Him (2016) 2 exemplaires
Suzy's Shoes (Picture Puffin) (1989) 2 exemplaires
On the Face Of It 1 exemplaire
THE STAR DREAMER 2019 (2019) 1 exemplaire
The custodian 1 exemplaire
Pirate Poll (1992) 1 exemplaire
Books and Company Issue 3 — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
Books and Company Issue 4 — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
Books and Company Issue 1 — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
Do me a favour 1 exemplaire
The enclosure 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

The Library Book (2012) — Contributeur — 393 exemplaires
Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre (2016) — Contributeur — 297 exemplaires
The Far Cry (1949) — Postface, quelques éditions176 exemplaires
Counting My Chickens . . .: And Other Home Thoughts (2001) — Directeur de publication — 157 exemplaires
The Woman in Black [2012 film] (2013) — Original book — 124 exemplaires
Is Anyone There? (1978) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires
Tale of an Empty House and Other Ghost Stories (1986) — Introduction — 22 exemplaires
The Woman in Black 2 : Angel of Death [2014 film] (2014) — Writer — 20 exemplaires
Penguin Modern Stories 7 (1971) — Contributeur — 15 exemplaires

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Interesting, kept me reading. She presents a large number of characters, makes them a bit sympathetic and then mows them down. It’s a bit confusing that this is the first in the Simon Serallier series , as he barely appears. I found the ending a bit of a letdown
 
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cspiwak | 83 autres critiques | Mar 6, 2024 |
An old fashioned Victorian gothic, lighter on plot than a Dickens but almost as well written, and wonderfully atmospheric. Not worth a lot of comment but an enjoyable read if you like this sort of thing, which I can confirm I do.
 
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lelandleslie | 30 autres critiques | Feb 24, 2024 |
A Change of Circumstance is the most recent of Susan Hill's Simon Serrailler novels. It is also her best of the eleven novels which make up the series so far. The books focus on DCI Simon Serrailler, his cases at work, and his family - parents, sister, sister's family. The series is remarkable.

Of the many, many good qualities these books have, one of my favourite things is that cases don't end up solved and put away neatly, and a new case begun at the beginning of the next book. These books sometimes finish in the middle of a case, of a family occurrence, a relationship, and leave you hanging until another is published. Not only is that excellent marketing, it is also a reflection of reality, where things tied up with a pretty ribbon hardly ever happen. (In Hertford, Hereford, and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen. That would have driven me crazy had I not written it down.)

In this installment of the books, there are drugs, both traditional street drugs and Chinese herbs, there is family - the ever-angry pater familias, Cat; working hard in her newest medical group; the children, grown up now except for Felix; and a small Yorkshire terrier who is grievously wounded. People, both bad and good, are murdered, and there are threats, an overdose, a suicide, drownings, autopsies and an exhumation. None of it ever feels too much, too crowded, or too mawkish. They are horrible occurrences, but managed so expertly by Hill that these books could never be called thrillers. They're not thrilling. Upsetting, yes, but scandalous never.

Why do I like this book best of her series? I think the writing is tighter. The family is all together, something that hasn't happened since the children were much smaller, and there's a maturity to Simon that hasn't been there before. He sees himself for the first time, the mess he's made, the people he's hurt, his relationship with his sister and her family, which includes a brother-in=law who is also his boss, and whom he doesn't quite like (neither do I. Kieron is soft).

I'm concerned that this might be the last Simon Serrailler book. Hill hasn't killed off her detective, never fear. She has changed him quite a lot, however, and I don't know what that will do to the momentum of the books. Hopefully there will be more. I haven't loved a detective series with this sort of passion for decades, when I first fell in love with Peter Wimsey. I was reading Dorothy Sayers when I was a teenager, so it really has been decades. I do think I am going to have to do a re-read of the series.

I do recommend this series with warmth and heartiness. The Queen has made these books quite well known in her online reading group and there's part of me that wishes that the books weren't quite so popular - I'd rather like to keep them to myself, as if I were eating forbidden sweeties in the night.
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ahef1963 | 8 autres critiques | Jan 25, 2024 |

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Œuvres
106
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19
Membres
15,831
Popularité
#1,435
Évaluation
½ 3.6
Critiques
909
ISBN
962
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Favoris
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