Susan Sallis

Susan Sallis
Born(1929-11-07)7 November 1929[1]
Died2020 (aged 90–91)
Pen nameSusan Meadmore
Occupationnovelist

Susan Diana Sallis (7 November 1929 – 2020) was a British novelist. She wrote women's fiction, romance, family sagas, historical fiction and books for children and teenagers. Some of her books were best-sellers. She also published as Susan Meadmore.

Early life and education

Born Susan Hill, she grew up in Gloucester and attended Denmark Road High School.[2][3][4] Her father worked on the railways.[5]

Career

Sallis started to write aged 28.[6] She went on a writing course but found it "soul-destroying", and at first her work was rejected when she submitted it to women's magazines.[2] She then had stories accepted by Woman's Realm.[6][7] Later, she went to St Matthias, Bristol to train as a teacher.[6] She enjoyed learning about children's literature on her course, and, aged 39, started to write novels.[6] She also worked as a primary school teacher between 1969 and 1974.[8]

Sallis wrote more than twenty novels, and her books sold over a million copies.[7] Her books were categorised in The Bookseller as "major sellers".[9][10] Searching for Tilly (2007) was in the top ten mass-market sellers.[11] Rachel's Secret (2008) sold 65,000 copies in its first year.[12] Sarah Broadhurst, writing in The Bookseller in 1999, said "She broke through last year with Come Rain or Shine, and although the bulk of her sales are in W H Smith and mixed multiples, she deserves to have bookshop sales too. She is a sophisticated, sensitive writer, and to expand her market Transworld is concentrating on press and radio profiles alongside the normal marketing strategies".[13]

Several of her books for children and teenagers are about children with disabilities.[6][14] Sweet Frannie (1981), about a sixteen-year-old who uses a wheelchair and is dying, was described in a review in the Coventry Evening Telegraph as "a tearjerker with guts".[15] It won an American Library Award, and was a finalist for the Young Observer Award.[5][6][7] A review in the English Journal in 1981 said "This book is one of the best of its kind".[16] The critic Lois Keith notes that it "was very well received when it was published and for at least the next ten years it was presented as a new, positive way of describing the lives of young disabled people in fiction", but that the positive portrayal of Frannie is undermined by the disgust she feels about her own body and other disabled people.[14] An Open Mind, also about disability, was said at the time to have "Melodramatic dialogue and situations".[17]

Sallis often used Gloucestershire, Cornwall and the West Country as locations for her novels.[3][18][19] Her Rising Family Quartet was based on stories of her mother's family.[6]

She said of her writing, "It’s become a kind of life role which I wouldn’t know how to replace. Writing earns me my place on earth, if you like".[7]

Some of her papers are held at the University of Southern Mississippi, in the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection.[1][8]

Personal life

Sallis married Brian, and they moved to Birmingham because of his job; like her father, he worked on the railways.[4][5] They moved to Clevedon in Somerset in the early 1960s, and remained living there; they had three children.[6] Sallis died in 2020.[19]

Selected works

The Rising Family Quartet

  • A Scattering of Daisies (1984)
  • The Daffodils of Newent (1985)
  • Bluebell Windows (1987)
  • Rosemary for Remembrance (1987)

Books for children and teenagers

  • An Open Mind (1978)
  • Sweet Frannie (1981), originally published in 1978 as Only Love[1]

Other novels

  • Troubled Waters (1975)
  • Four Weeks in Venice (1978)
  • Summer Visitors (1988)
  • By Sun and Candlelight (1990)
  • Daughters of the Moon (1993)
  • Come Rain or Shine (1998)
  • Sea of Dreams (2001)
  • The Pumpkin Coach (2004)
  • Searching for Tilly (2007)
  • Rachel's Secret (2008)
  • The Sweetest Thing (2010)

As Susan Meadmore

  • Behind the Mask (1980)
  • Thunder in the Hills (1981), originally published in 1979 as A Time for Everything[1]
  • Mary Mary (1982)

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Susan Sallis Papers". University of Southern Mississippi. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  2. ^ a b "WI Countywide". Gloucestershire Echo. 23 February 1995. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Denmark Road". Gloucester Citizen. 18 February 1992. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  4. ^ a b "The author remembers". Gloucester Citizen. 19 June 1992. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  5. ^ a b c Sallis, Susan (2012). No Time At All. Penguin Random House Children's UK. p. 107. ISBN 978-1-4481-0293-8. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h Morgan, Lesley Ann (28 April 1993). "Susan's sagas: and she's penning her way to the sale of one million books". Western Daily Press. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  7. ^ a b c d Jones, Valerie (6 November 1997). "Clevedon writer's latest is good escapist stuff". Clevedon Mercury. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  8. ^ a b "Susan Sallis Papers". de Grummond Children's Literature Collection. University of Southern Mississippi. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  9. ^ Broadhurst, Sarah (2 August 1996). "Major sellers". The Bookseller. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  10. ^ Broadhurst, Sarah (28 July 2006). "Paperback Preview: November". The Bookseller. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  11. ^ "Top Twenty Mass Market Fiction". The Bookseller. 2 November 2007. Retrieved 21 June 2024. Susan Sallis' saga Searching for Tilly joins the top 10
  12. ^ "Bubbling under". The Bookseller. 6 June 2008. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  13. ^ Broadhurst, Sarah (27 August 1999). "December Paperbacks". The Bookseller. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  14. ^ a b Keith, Lois (2001). Take Up Thy Bed and Walk: Death, Disability and Cure in Classic Fiction for Girls. The Woman's Press. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  15. ^ "Eve Bookshelf". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 10 March 1981. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  16. ^ Duncan, Jean; Dye, Carol; Lazarus, Joan; Schwartzmann, Diane; Warner, Jill A; Hendin, Rita (1981). "Young Adult Literature: New Writes of Passage". English Journal. 70 (4): 76–79. doi:10.2307/816644. JSTOR 816644. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  17. ^ Stroud, Janet G (1981). "Selecting Materials Which Promote Understanding and Acceptance of Handicapped Students". The English Journal. 70 (1): 49–52. doi:10.2307/816164. JSTOR 816164. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  18. ^ Sutton, Don (20 May 1993). "Paperbacks". Liverpool Daily Post. Retrieved 21 June 2024. Cornish setting, of course, for another grand romance
  19. ^ a b "Susan Sallis". Penguin. Retrieved 21 June 2024.

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