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2023: In a small, isolated town on the North Norfolk coast, Fran’s life is unravelling.
Bird Spotting in a Small Town
What you need to know before your trail
Fran’s life is unravelling. As she fills her days cleaning the caravan park she owns, she is preoccupied by worry – about the behaviour of her son, the growing absence of her husband and the strained relationship with her sister. Her one source of solace is slipping out to the beach early in the morning, to watch the birds.
Small-town tension simmers when a new teacher starts at the local school and a Romany community settle in the field adjoining Fran’s caravan park. From the distance of his caravan, seventy-year-old Tad quietly watches the townspeople – mainly, Fran’s family.
When the schoolteacher and Fran’s brother-in-law both go missing on the same night, accusations fly. Yet all Fran can seem to care about is the birds.
Travel Guide
Norfolk
The story takes place in North Norfolk but the locations themselves are vague – doesn’t matter as this story fits perfectly with the remote and eery atmosphere of this part of the English coast. It’s very famous for bird watching and spotting seals and other creatures off the coast. Seals in Hunstanton!
This is the place where nature is taking over. Where caravan parks sit beside cliffs overlooking the waves and the sea. A part of England where the elements and the landscape are characters in themselves.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Bird Spotting in a Small Town
Destination: Norfolk Author/guide: Sophie Morton-Thomas Departure Time: 2023
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