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The distinctive banded cliffs of Hunstanton, towering over the seaweed-clad rockpools where a young L P Hartley once played. Through the character of Eustace, the novelist produces a 'study of childhood' in The Shrimp and the Anemone (1944).
Travel with literary pilgrims through the ages to the north-west of Norfolk. Visit 'East' Barsham and Walsingham, where the murder mysteries of Kate Charles and Sylvia Haymon lend a sinister edge to celebrations. Explore the true Norfolk connections of the legendary Indian Princess Pocahontas, close to the sand dunes and lavender fields of Heacham. Tour the 'monument of grandeur' that is Houghton Hall, a place of mixed emotions for Gothic novelist and MP Horace Walpole. Join comic novelist P G Wodehouse plotting Money For Nothing (1928) on a punt in the moat of Hunstanton Hall. 'Revisit a lost hour' whilst wandering 'long beaches and green lanes' with poet Alan Brownjohn, hunt butterflies with intrepid diarist Margaret Fountaine, or delight
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