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Mo Hayder

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suckingonchillidogs · 10/08/2021 13:16

Just read that Mo Hayder has sadly died. Apparently she used to play Miss Belfridge in Are you being Served as well (under a different name)! Sounds like she lead quite an exciting life. Very sad news - MS apparently.

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eightlivesdown · 10/08/2021 15:03

Reading about her, she certainly lived a varied and interesting life - left school and home at 15 as a wild child, worked as a barmaid, model, security guard, film-maker, hostess in a Tokyo club, teacher of English as a foreign language in Asia, actress, author.

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suckingonchillidogs · 10/08/2021 15:21

I feel quite inadequate now!

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LyndaMcLynda · 10/08/2021 15:23

MND wasn't it?

Her books were so dark but so good.

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suckingonchillidogs · 10/08/2021 15:26

@LyndaMcLynda

MND wasn't it?

Her books were so dark but so good.

Sorry, yes you're right - MND
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hoochyhooha · 10/08/2021 15:36

Oh gosh, poor love RIP Thanks
Powerful, dark books that stay with you.

eightlivesdown · 10/08/2021 15:39

@suckingonchillidogs

I feel quite inadequate now!
She also got 2 degrees, an MA in film from The American University in Washington DC and an MA in creative writing from Bath Spa University UK.

I know what you mean about feeling inadequate!

impressivelycunty · 10/08/2021 16:08

I was so sad to read this - what a life! Her books are amazing - I'd been looking out for a new title from her for a while - she really was a stand-out in the crime genre.

Saucery · 10/08/2021 18:32

Ah no, she was a great thriller writer Sad

Snozzlemaid · 10/08/2021 20:40

That's so sad to hear.
I'm sure I'd heard a while ago she was writing a new book under a different name.

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YouSetTheTone · 12/08/2021 08:57

@Snozzlemaid

That's so sad to hear. I'm sure I'd heard a while ago she was writing a new book under a different name.
Mo Hayder wrote a book under the name ‘Theo Clare’ called ‘The Book Of Sands’. It’s due out either later this year or early next year I think. Such sad news.
peaceanddove · 17/08/2021 22:53

Oh that is so, so sad. MND is such a cruel disease. I absolutely love her books, they are so elegantly macabre.

efeslight · 18/08/2021 09:08

I am also a fan of her books, dark, and sinister as they are. I thought I read they were going to be made in to a tv series. Does anyone know if this ever went ahead?
What an interesting woman she was.
RIP Mo

MaudOfTheMarches · 18/08/2021 11:08

Sad news, especially as she was so young. I had no idea she had led such an interesting life. Her books became too dark for me but I enjoyed the earlier ones. I knew someone who lived in what appeared to be the real-life setting of The Treatment, next to Brockwell Park, which made it a bit too close for comfort.

peaceanddove · 18/08/2021 11:28

I would love the BBC to make her books into a series. I've always thought Aiden Turner would make a fantastic Jack Cafferey.

LyndaMcLynda · 18/08/2021 20:19

@peaceanddove

I would love the BBC to make her books into a series. I've always thought Aiden Turner would make a fantastic Jack Cafferey.
Yes to that!!
peaceanddove · 18/08/2021 22:10

He would be perfect wouldn't he - in all his dark, brooding wonderfulness.

YouSetTheTone · 19/08/2021 13:36

The Jack Caffery book Wolf is currently being adapted by the BBC! I haven’t read anything about the casting though.

peaceanddove · 19/08/2021 17:36

Oh wow! That makes me so happy x

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