Author Susan Hill visits the Institute

Susan Hill, novelist and playwright, was a very welcome visitor to the Institute on 11 July. She met Professor Irene Higginson and other members of the Department and discussed her interest in palliative care together with her novels to date.

She was introduced to modules of the MSc and PG Diploma in Palliative Care, which was mentioned in her recent novel ‘The Shadows in the Street’ (2010). Susan became a Fellow of King’s College in 1978.