Places that lent thread to the weave of this novel include Avebury Manor, Kelmscott Manor, Great Chalfield Manor, Abbey House Gardens in Malmesbury, Lacock Abbey, the Uffington White Horse, the Barbury Hill Fort, the Ridgeway, the countryside of Wiltshire, Berkshire, and Oxfordshire, the villages of Southrop, Eastleach, Kelmscott, Buscot, and Lechlade, the river Thames, and of course London.
