Why a Booktrail?
1992, 2015: Five friends return to the Lake District…to atone for past sins or to revive them?
Every Secret Thing
What you need to know before your trail
Five friends, newly graduated, travel together to the Lake District. Young and ambitious, they little imagine the events that will overtake them that fateful summer, tearing their fragile group apart.
Twenty years later, they return to the same spot, summoned by a mysterious bequest. It’s not long before old friendships – and old romances – are re-kindled. But soon, too, rivalries begin to emerge and wounds are painfully reopened . . .
How long does it take for past sins to be forgiven? And can the things they destroy ever really be recovered?
Locations
Reset- England - The Lake District
- A: Kirkstone Pass
- B: Helvellyn
- C: St Sunday Crag
- D: Scafell Pike
- E: Ullswater
- England - Cambridge
- F: Cambridge University - Clare College
- G: Barton Road
- H: Coe Fen
Travel Guide
Lake District
The names in the book might be fictional but you know you are definitely at the heart of one of the prettiest areas of the UK!
“It was almost dusk when the taxi reached the top of the pass and Nag’s Pike came into view. Judith had forgotten the drama of it: the way it cleaved the horizon with the sharp double peak of its peaked ears, asserting its dominance over the gentler curves of the surrounding fells”
How did it get its name?
..the features local tradition conferred on it: the shaggy mane of woodland running down the straight slope of its neck, and the broad saddle back plain below.
The landscape is evoked with emotion and a genuine love for the area. The author has put her own stamp on things and created a small cottage near Ullswater (wait until you read about the dragon) and created a legend which will come back to haunt those who stay there in 1992.
You would think a visiting choir might have a more sedate stay…but no…
Cambridge
Interestingly, Claire College in the city is where the author herself sung in a choir and so the storyline here is inspired by her time there. The workings of a choir and the camaraderie between the various members adds another layer to the mystery.
Coe Fen
Not many places outside the university to speak of, but Coe Fen stands out as being rather nice. Stephen cycles here on his way home.
Streetview Maps
E) England - Lake District - Ullswater
H) England - Cambridge - Coe Fen
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Every Secret Thing
Destination : The Lake District, Cambridge Author/Guide: Rachel Crowther Departure Time: 1992, 2015
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