Fenland books

[bookwormsarah]

I am writing a talk about books set in the Fens/Cambridgeshire. So far I have thought of

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[bookwormsarah]

The only other one I could come up with was Coot Club - and that's Norfolk!

Ditto for Minnow on the Say - I'm pretty sure that is further afield than I'm looking. If you have a brainwave, please do let me know!

[mrsrev]

The Imogen Quy (?) mysteries - cannot remember who by though :( I'm sure they are set around Cambridge.

I need to read Minnow on the Say again now because you mentioned it! One of my all-time favourites, but I've never thought of it being set anywhere particular, strangely enough. And yet when I read Green Knowe, it did remind me of Minnow... Hmmmm.

[mrsrev]

Oh, and Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth is meant to be about Peterborough although he calls it something different.

[mrs_redboots]

I think Imogen Quy is by Jill Paton Walsh - she who continued the Lord Peter Wimsey series remarkably successfully.

[mrs_redboots]

One of Elizabeth George's novels is set in Cambridge, I think it's For the Sake of Elena, but I could be wrong. Pauses to check - no, I'm not wrong, that's the one. Then P D James' Death in Holy Orders is set on the Norfolk coast, but I think that's just outside your area, isn't it?

But the classic Fenland novel is Elizabeth Goudge's The Dean's Watch, set in a lightly-disguised Ely. One of my favourite books of all time!

[catmadbookworm]

John Gordon has set many books in East Anglia and I know that his newest one is definitely set in Fenland, can't remember the title but it is a new hardback published by Orion.

[lyndagb]

There's a section of Green Darkness by Anya Seton which is set in the fens up in Lincolnshire. And bits of Katherine as well. Lots of mists, bogs and crazy locals!