Michael Rhodes
2020-10-21 17:27:23 UTC
_. Jill Paton Walsh, the writer, who has died aged 83, made her name with demanding and captivating children’s books, and later continued the adventures of Dorothy L Sayers’s soigné sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey; in 1994 she caused a sensation when her book Knowledge of Angels became the first self-published novel to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize....Her novel Knowledge of Angels was turned down by 19 British publishers, but the Booker Prize judges thought differently and shortlisted it....