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Steve Hanson's avatar

Coleridge and his Nether Stowey house feature in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams (of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fame). A great book but quite complicated. First time I read it, I finished it on a flight to China and spent the next 2 hours trying to piece it altogether.

Have you been to Thomas Hardy's cottage in Higher Bockhampton near Dorchester? If not I think you would like it.

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Hannah Patient's avatar

That’s so interesting - to me the cottage felt like quite a gentle place and not the obvious setting for a sci-fi / murder mystery novel!

I haven’t been but I love Hardy so will definitely have to visit :)

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