Book: Printer’s Devil Court
Susan Hill’s long and diverse career will surely always be defined by The Woman in Black. She’d already enjoyed an acclaimed early blossoming, which saw her lauded with such major industry honours as the Somerset Maugham Award, the Whitbread Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, but it was her Gothic ghost story that truly caught the public imagination. Published in 1983, it attained instant classic status and immediately established her as a master of the genre.
The smash-hit stage version continues to chill West End audiences some quarter of a century after its first production, and in 2012 it was brought to the big screen in blockbusting fashion by the recently resurrected Hammer Films company.
