Sample of authors
Moyes, Patricia
Patricia Moyes was born Patricia Pakenham-Walsh in Dublin, Ireland. She was educated at Overstone School in Northampton 1934–39 and served in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) during the Second World War, achieving the rank of flight officer. After the war she was hired by Peter Ustinov as an assistant after which she was assistant editor of English Vogue between 1953 and 1958. She spent a la...
Literary figures
Simon (Si) Serrailler
Gender: Male
He is a police detective, later a chief inspector, in the fictive little cathedral town of Lafferton in southern England, where he also grew up. Simon Serrailler – Si to his family – has two twin sisters and a severely handicapped little sister. He is described by author Susan Hill as just over 35 years of age, blond and handsome, and although he is attractive to women he is single. In his free ti...