The Body Lies

Travel Guide

Travel BookTrail style to a university in rural England

The bulk of the novel takes place in a university in rural England. The place is very remote and it has its own village and landscape. IT’s a small community so everyone knows everyone else. There’s creative writing, chats about novels and authors and literary merit discussed in class and in the university grounds. It’s the perfect place for a bookworm to be!

There there’s Gill House:

“Gill House stood solid, foursquare, in its garden, like a child’s drawing; there were even pink roses around the door. We were renting it furnished, which made things a bit easier.”

“It really was, Mark said, the back of beyond: just past our house, the tarmac cracked and fell away and a gravel track ploughed up the hillside and faded to a footpath on the fell, From the front windows, there was a view of open fields, a derelict barn, pylons, woodland and sky; at night, the barn and the pylons were silhouetted by the orange glow of the town. Our nearest neighbours were down the lane, at a pungent steaming little farm, and a mile or so further down, where the land met the main road from town, there was a village, with a little shop, and a pub, and cosy-looking primary school. It was a world away from our old life; it all looked so comfortable, and safe.”