At the end of their journey Daily gives Kipps his card. In the train to Crythin Gifford he meets a man called Samuel Daily, one of the rich landowners around Crythin and during their trip they talk a bit. Bentley, sends him out to Crythin Gifford, to handle the case of the late Mrs. Then his story begins.Īrthur Kipps is a young accountant living in London and happily engaged with Stella, when his boss, Mr. Not that evening, but he will write it down, as a book. Outside he thinks of a story that he does know, one that has happened to him when he was younger and he decides to tell it. He kind of freaks out and goes outside for a walk. The kids don’t believe it and keep pushing Arthur to tell one.

When the kids start to tell ghost stories and ask Arthur to tell one too he says he doesn’t know any. The main character, Arthur Kipps, is spending it with his family. The story of two officers, its title is taken directly from one of Wilfred Owen's most memorable poems. Strange meeting (1971), for example, is set in the trenches of First World War France and takes its inspiration from the poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. In her work, a backdrop of English life is shown in a less than comfortable way, with much suffering and violence. She began writing novels again in the early 1980's, with the successful The woman in black (1983), a ghost story. However, her creative output continued, particularly in non-fiction and plays for radio. She announced that she would give up writing and in 1975 married Stanley Wells, a Shakespeare scholar. She won many awards for her work during the 1960's and early 1970's, but because someone very close to her died she engaged in a period of grieving, finding some release in writing her novel In the springtime of the year, published in 1974. After five years in this post she became a full-time author. Her first book, The enclosure (1961) was quite well received and on leaving university she became book review editor for the Coventry Evening Telegraph. She attended a grammar school in Coventry before studying English at the University of London, gaining her degree in 1963.

Susan Elizabeth Hill was born at Scarborough in Yorkshire.

The woman in black by susan hill 1983