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Susan Kay


Born
in Manchester, England, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1953

Genre
Historical Fiction


Susan Kay (b. 1953) is a writer.

She is most known for her book, Phantom, which expands upon the history of Erik, the character from Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, in an episodic format of seven chapters from different characters' points of view.

Susan Kay did not travel to Iran to research the novel, although she did research in person at the Paris Opera House.

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.

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.
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Legacy
4.15 avg rating — 3,133 ratings — published 1983 — 31 editions
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“None of us can choose where we shall love...”
― Susan Kay, Phantom
tags: empathy, love, opera, passion, phantom, sympathy, understanding
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“My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond my comprehension, no art or skill upon this entire planet that lies beyond the mastery of my hand. And yet, like Faust, I look in vain, I learn in vain. . . . For as long as I live, no woman will ever look on me in love.”
― Susan Kay, Phantom
tags: erik, love, opera, phantom, phantom-of-the-opera
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“And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!”
― Susan Kay, Phantom
tags: comeback, funny, humor, ironic, irony, satire, sharp, witty
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