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2023: Fear blisters through this town like a fever…
2023: Fear blisters through this town like a fever…
When Teddy Colne arrives in the small town of Rye, he believes he will be able to settle down and leave his past behind him. Little does he know that fear blisters through the streets like a fever. The locals tell him to stay away from an establishment known only as Berry & Vincent, that those who rub too closely to its proprietor risk a bad end.
Despite their warnings, Teddy is desperate to understand why Rye has come to fear this one man, and to see what really hides behind the doors of his shop.
Ada moved to Rye with her young son to escape a damaged childhood and years of never fitting in, but she’s lonely, and ostracised by the community. Ada is ripe for affection and friendship, and everyone knows it.
As old secrets bleed out into this town, so too will a mystery about a family who vanished fifty years earlier, and a community living on a knife edge.
Teddy looks for answers, thinking he is safe, but some truths are better left undisturbed, and his past will find him here, just as it has always found him before. And before long, it will find Ada too.
Rye, Sussex
Rye is the setting of the novel but it is not very important to the story as it could be set anywhere. However, it has to be set in a small, fairly rural area as there are not too many shops and inhabitants. Those who know the shop in the novel tell of strange tales and say that is is best avoided.
The shop is ficitonal ( or is it?). There are two antique shops here on the map that could be it….
Destination/location: Rye Author/guide: Ronnie Turner Departure Time: 2023
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