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2000s: Fenmere is fictional and when you read this, you’ll be thankful
The Darkest Lies
What you need to know before your trail
Melanie Oak – Married to her childhood sweetheart, living in a pretty village with their beautiful teenage daughter, Beth
Nothing can shake her happiness – until the day that Beth goes missing and is discovered beaten almost to the point of death, her broken body lying in a freezing creek on the marshes near their home.
Melanie is determined to find her daughter’s attacker. Someone in the village must have seen something. Why won’t they talk?
As Melanie tries to piece together what happened to Beth, she discovers that her innocent teenager has been harbouring some dark secrets of her own.
Travel Guide
Fenmere/Friskney Lincolnshire
The author mentions at the end of the novel that although she modelled the village of Fenmere on the real village of Friskney, it has no resemblance to the real place. With the themes and issues in this book, you’ll be pleased to learn that it isn’t real.
The author actually grew up here and had a wonderful childhood there – happy and peaceful she says – so if you get a chance to visit this nice version of Fenmere do, just don’t go into the one in the fictional world.
The village in the novel is dark, creepy and soulless – it’s the tight enclosed community where no one speaks and everyone hides behind the curtains. They are the ‘know all but say nothing’ brigade – not the kind of people you’d want to live amongst as you’d have to be on your guard the entire time. Being anywhere when you know someone is going to get attacked and then seeing the aftermath is hard wherever you are. In a remote Lincolnshire village, the landscape is brutal , cold and foreboding.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Darkest Lies
Author/Guide: Barbara Copperthwaite Destination: Lincolnshire (fictional Fenmere) Departure Time: 2000s
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