Susan Kay was born on 1952 in Manchester, England. She worked as a primary school teacher until leaving to bring up a family, and now lives with her husband and two children in Cheshire. Her first novel was Legacy, about the life of Queen Elizabeth I and won a Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize and a Betty Trask Award in 1985. Her second novel was Phantom, which expands upon the history of Erik, the hideous, brilliant character from Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, and won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association in 1991.
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Fiction, History, Queens, Fiction, general, Color in textile crafts, Color in the textile industries, Directories, Dyes and dyeing, ELT: Learning Material & Coursework, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Horror tales, Love stories, Phantom of the Opera (Fictitious character), Physical education facilities, Social aspects, Textile crafts, Textile fabrics, Textile industry, phantom of the opera, romanceID Numbers
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