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Mary 1935 - Chapter 3

Author commentary

It was a house like this that Mary lived in Nottingham, England

I was able to visualise a lot of the setting for this part of the novel because I remember family tales of what it was like living in Nottingham at the end of the 1930s. I also visited the city many years ago. The memories are vivid; a castle on a hill, surprising caves righ…