Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Dark rumours swirl around a community on the edge of the Fens …
Beneath the Surface
What you need to know before your trail
After a chaotic childhood, Grace Vermuyden is determined her own daughters will fulfil the dreams denied to her. Lilly is everyone’s golden girl, the popular, clever daughter she never had to worry about. So when she mysteriously collapses in class, Grace’s carefully ordered world begins to unravel.
Dark rumours swirl around their tight-knit community on the edge of the Fens as everyone comes up with their own theories about what happened. Consumed with paranoia, and faced with increasing evidence that Lilly has been leading a secret life, Grace starts to search for clues.
Left to her own devices, ten-year-old Mia develops some wild theories of her own that have unforeseen and devastating consequences for the people she loves most.
Locations
Reset- England - Cambridgeshire
- A: Fenlands
- B: Cambridge - tourist office
- C: Cambridge - North Cambridge
Travel Guide
Visit the Norfolk and Cambridgeshire Fens
“Beowolf has its cultural roots in a village less than an hour from the Cambridge classroom where they now sit. He points out of he window and tells them the Fens were the haunt of Beowulf’s nemesis, Grendel, and that ‘ fen’ is an Old English word meaning marsh, dirt or mud that is used all over northern Europe because that was where the Anglo-Saxons came from.”
The landscape:
“In a land where sky is king, the weather announces itself hours in advance; the fields, ditches and dykes have a Mondrian-like geometry, that repeats itself with utter predictability as far as the horizon; and you can see anyone approaching for miles.”
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Beneath the Surface
Destination : Cambridgeshire, Fens Author/Guide: Fiona Neill Departure Time: 2000s
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