The Standing Hills

Caroline Stickland (born 1955) is a British author known for her historical novels set in Dorset, England, with Thomas Hardy-esque overtones, including her debut The Standing Hills (1986), A House of Clay (1988), The Darkness of Corn (1990), An Ancient Hope (1993), The Darkening Leaf (1995), The Kindly Ones (2000), and Grail (2015). She holds a degree in English and American Literature from the University of East Anglia and worked in adult literacy tutoring; her first novel won a Betty Trask Award in 1985 and was nominated for the Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize Society of Authors, Publishers Weekly.