Initial purpose of the trip was to revisit old haunts, where we did our courting (for that was what it was referred to as, in those days) but I immediately latched on to the additional prospect of some location research for novels.
'Making good' includes a couple of funerals, taking place in a graveyard described from memory. The reality was, unsurprisngly, smaller, but also less sloping and further from the consequently hidden view of church and house that once belonged to Henry VIII, so the conversation between Sean and Bridie is inaccurate and has, in fact, to be fiction. Of course.
'Longest shadows reach' is less problematical since much of the action, which takes place in 2011 - and one of the major inspirations - is a house which was demolished in the 1960s, so I will have far fewer qualms about sending Luke Darbyshere to stay in a pub which I had forgotten but whose location is perfect. It too, is about to be demolished.
I love it when I find somewhere real to base my fictional place on.
ReplyDeleteThis whole location/inspiration subject is so fascinating isn't it? But it's so necessary to be flexible and allow oneself to fiddle with reality!
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