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2000s: Do you ever really know the person you’re married to?
The Loving Husband
What you need to know before your trail
Fran Hall and her husband Nathan have moved with their two children to a farmhouse on the edge of the Fens – a chance to get away from London and have a fresh start.
But when Fran wakes one night to find Nathan gone, she makes a devastating discovery. As questions about her husband and her relationships start to mount, Fran’s life begins to spiral out of control.
What is she hiding from the police about her marriage, and does she really know the man she shared her bed with?
Locations
Reset- England - "The Fens"
- A: Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve
- B: Ely Cathedral
- C: Cambridge
Travel Guide
Cambridge and the Fens
The area of the fens in and around Cambridge was the setting for the inspiration behind the book. The author moved here with her husband who had got a job at the university. They were looking for a remote farmhouse but the area felt more remote than they had expected and the house was dilapidated and in desperate need of repair.
The Fens she says are flat an spooky and empty but without the beautiful of an estuarial landscape; in the Fens you are buried deep inland, and it is a curious mixture of empty nature and the manmade: grain silos, drainage ditches, and now, wind farms. It is unsettling and disorientation and so flat you can almost see the curvature of the earth.”
It was in the farmhouse they were initially interested in making an offer on, that most of the action takes place in. As the author adds ” if you walk out the backdoor a vast and eerie landscape will dwarf and menace you”
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: The Loving Husband
Author/Guide: Christobel Kent Destination: The Fens Departure Time: 2000s
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