That's an attitude probably influenced by the fact that, as a Yank, my knowledge of East Anglian geography is hazy anyway!) In real life, the One Bull does abut the ruins of an abbey St. (Some readers have considered it a flaw that she created a different town here, finding it difficult to fit into actual Suffolk geography or into the imagined geography of her total Suffolk corpus, but I don't have any problem with it IMO, readers shouldn't be too concerned with exact geographic placement of invented locations. It also serves, in many of her novels, as the model for her fictional Baildon, a town that's mentioned here once in passing. Edmund, which serves as the model for Mallow here. The One Bull, whose history she imagines here (with fictional characters) is a real eatery, originally built in Roman times, in her beloved hometown of Bury St. In content and style, there's much here that's typical of Lofts' work, including the Suffolk setting. It suggests a romance novel, which this isn't, and there's no couple in the book that clearly resembles the one on the cover in looks or behavior.) One of the author's last novels, it's also one of her most ambitious.
(The edition I read was actually a different, hardcover one and the cover art on the edition above is misleading. Cerdic.Īs the reasonably accurate Goodreads description above indicates, Lofts covers an enormous sweep of English history in this book, nearly 16 centuries. 3, 2014: I've just revised this review slightly, to correct some information on the historical background of St. Note, April 12, 2017: Just now, I edited this again, this time to correct a typo.
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