Celia Dale
Celia Dale was born in 1912 and was once a secretary to Rumer Godden, and also worked as a publisher’s advisor and a book reviewer. Her first novel, The Least of These, was published in 1943, and she went on to write twelve others, among them A Helping Hand, Sheep’s Clothing and A Spring of Love. She won the 1986 Crime Writers' Association Veuve Cliquot Short Story Award for ‘Lines of Communication’, which appears in her only short story collection, A Personal Call and Other Stories. She died in 2011.
