One Hundred Pieces of Me

Why a Booktrail?

2000s: Longhampton may be fictional yet you will love wandering down the streets by opening the pages of this lovely and though provoking novel.

ISBN: 978-1444727074
Genre: Fiction

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What you need to know before your trail

How would you react if you had to pick only 100 personal possessions to keep?

This is what Gina does as she decides to do after a few years of a difficult time. The things she owns now don’t reflect who she is any more and so she goes through her stuff and selects only those which matter to her.

As she does though, memories long buried are woken up and she decides why each possession makes up a little piece of her and who she is.

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Travel Guide

The setting of the latest Lucy Dillon’s book ‘ A hundred pieces of me’ is the fictional yet utterly compelling setting of Longhampton where we imagine is based somewhere in Hereford given the author’s home there and love of the region. It certainly makes us want to pay a visit.

Longhampton

The fictional, quaint little village of Longhampton is the setting for both the past and their present. First we meet Gina in her victorian home she shares with her husband in Dryden Road.

‘In the desirable poets’ streets area of Longhampton, the neglected Victorian terrace that she and Stuart had coaxed from damp shabbiness to what Gina’s house magazines like to call a ‘forever home’.

This cozy village is also the perfect place to start afresh in a new flat on the high street-

It was no coincidence, thought Gina, gazing around her empty new flat, that Heaven was commonly assumed to be a big white room with absolutely nothing in it. Something about this clean, powerful space made her feel calmer than she had in weeks.

A nice touch of Gina’s story is the comfort she obviously gets from – not a single material possession but a place – in this case her childhood home in Martley, St Leonards -again a fictional setting but one which could be based on Martley in Worchester?

Workington in Cumbria – was the inspiration for Longhampton and we’ve chosen a few spot places to visit!