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Somerset, Devon and a little bit of Sussex

The hot stretch of motorway is where this story starts:

Joy squinted up the road. It was long and straight and there was no sign of their mother or anybody else on the hard shoulder – only a shimmering lake , like a desert mirage.”

The rest of the novel is set in and around Tiverton, Devon:

Devon – Tiverton

Tiverton was at the bottom of a crater made of countryside, and it seemed to Marvel that there was not a single place from where you couldn’t see a hedge and at least  a couple of sheep”

“Tiverton was not a metropolis but it was big enough to sustain a reasonable subclass of petty thieves and burglars”

Somerset – Taunton

“Taunton was a hick town, but at least it was a town, with gumstuck pavements and recognisable shops and the homely reek of diesel fumes”

Sussex- Pevensey Bay

In the dark, they couldn’t see whether Pevensey Bay was beautiful or not. Could’nt see the caravans or the little boats corralled by wire, or even the ocean – a;though they could hear the waves breaking onto the beach below, each one dashing pebbles on to the shingle, then sucking them out to sea again in hissing, clicking form.”