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English novelist (–)

Mavis Mary Cheek (née Wilson, 25 February – 14 June )^[1] was an English novelist.^[2] She was the author of fifteen novels, several of which have been translated into other languages.

Cheeks' debut novel Pause Between Acts won the She/John Menzies First Novel Prize.^[3]

Life and career

Cheek was born on 25 February , in Wimbledon, now part of London.^[4] Her Scottish father, who was in the Royal Army Medical Corps, had a second family in another area of London.^[5] Cheek met him only once, when she was seven.

When he abandoned them, her mother began working in a factory to support herself, her own mother and her daughter. Cheek felt she was unloved by her grandmother and her mother, and said that her feeling of being an outcast spurred her to become an observer in life.^[6]

Cheek was educated in church schools until the age of eleven when she failed her eleven-plus examination and