Why a Booktrail?
2000s: How well do you know your girlfriend? How well do you know your lover? How well do you know yourself?
This Little Dark Place
What you need to know before your trail
Daniel and Victoria are together. They’re trying for a baby. Ruby is in prison, convicted of assault on an abusive partner.
But when Daniel joins a pen pal program for prisoners, he and Ruby make contact. At first the messages are polite, neutral – but soon they find themselves revealing more and more about themselves. Their deepest fears, their darkest desires.
And then, one day, Ruby comes to find Daniel. And now he must decide who to choose – and who to trust.
Locations
Reset- England - Lake District
- A: Lake District National Park
- B: Forest of Bowland
- C: 'Wilder on Sea'
Travel Guide
Visit This Little Dark Place in The Lake District
There’s no place called Wilder on Sea which is where this book takes place and it’s a backdrop rather than a setting anyway as the story could take place anywhere. Anywhere one of a couple decides to write to a prisoner that is…
The couple move to a house called Lanes End and it’s a nice home in the countyside. They can see the Lake District Peaks in the distance and there’s a wood called Bowland Forest nearby so next time you’re in the Lake District, take a look and see what you can see!
Oh those woods!
“We stumbled along silently like a three-legged creature swaying left and right. Ditches and thorny hedges lined the road. Behind them fields and fields separated us from everything; the great bay to our right, the hills to our left.”
And if you find a Beryl Avenue where the couple live….
Booktrail Boarding Pass: This Little Dark Place
Destination : The Lake District, Fictional ‘Wilder on Sea’ Author/Guide: A S Hatch Departure Time: 2000s
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