Milly
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Jo Baker:
Hi Jo. Firstly just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your book Longbourn. There are many places that spiral in the story around Arholme which is about 10 minutes from where I live in Kirkby Lonsdale. How do you find a way of incorporating direct places into a novel and are places considered before the novel or not? Milly
Jo Baker
Hello Milly! I grew up round there and currently live in Lancaster. I also do some volunteering at QES, if that's relevant to you. You can message me on directly if you want to find out more.
Do you mean The Telling? That is much more Lancashire than Longbourn is - set specifically in the village, in the old Reading Room Cottage...
In Longbourn I do go north, via the line from Austen that the Bingleys made their money in 'Trade, in the north'. and when i describe the countryside it is very much the countryside of my childhood - spent up trees, and in the river, building dens and getting nettled. Sense of place is really important to me, but I think a novel only really properly works if the characters and story come first, and the sense of place comes in around them.
Do you mean The Telling? That is much more Lancashire than Longbourn is - set specifically in the village, in the old Reading Room Cottage...
In Longbourn I do go north, via the line from Austen that the Bingleys made their money in 'Trade, in the north'. and when i describe the countryside it is very much the countryside of my childhood - spent up trees, and in the river, building dens and getting nettled. Sense of place is really important to me, but I think a novel only really properly works if the characters and story come first, and the sense of place comes in around them.
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