This topic from Long and Short Reviews was a tough one. For a while I honestly couldn't think of any book set anywhere near where I live. However, I then remembered that Haworth is within an hour's drive of me, which means only one thing... Bronte Country.
While the Brontes liked to obscure the names of the places in their stories, they famously set them in Yorkshire.
"Shirley" is particularly well known for taking place in a Yorkshire mill town dealing with the Luddites, while
"Wuthering Heights" is set up on the Yorkshire moors. I've often gone walking around the area to enjoy the moors the Bronte sisters would have enjoyed during their lives.
In my own writing I have often set stories in Yorkshire, but rarely described it to that degree. I did, however, write a short for
Smut By The Sea called "I Like It Wet" which was set in Scarborough - a place I would love to visit again now that I'm stuck indoors.
So which books have been set near you?
Published on May 25, 2020 23:56