Where am I?
As we have moved from one world to another, from the prospect of a hard Brexit and eternal Tory rule to something much more fluid and uncertain, it seems appropriate to talk about setting in a novel. Setting is about so much more than landscape and architecture, for me it is everything that isn't plot and character and that everything interacts with both: it is atmosphere, ethos, flavour, taste and colour. It is the essence of the story world. When you open a book, that is a portal into something else's mind, it is the world of the story that embraces you, that lures you inside. Who hasn't wanted to go to Hogwarts, Avonlea, Neverland, Narnia or New Crobuzon, the Yorkshire Moors or Northanger Abbey? Oh, come on, it can't be just me? I love that the fact that books take you somewhere else, that you swim in different waters, breathe a different air. You have been to the place where a story happened, and it lives in your head and in your memory long after the
