Gone to Ground
“Most of her early life, her childhood certainly, she had lived with her family in Derbyshire, and holidays, following her parents' inclinations, had been spent camping in the Lakes. Midges and mint cake and endless trudges up this or that mountain, most often in search of a view that, when they eventually arrived, was lost in mist. Damp visits to the Pencil Museum in Keswick.
But Broadstairs? The southeast? That nub of land that jutted bluntly out into the Strait of Dover, the watery point wher...e the English Channel and the North Sea met.
Ramsgate, Margate, Broadstairs.
Stephen and herself playing cricket with their father on the sand, building castles that collapsed into the tide. An ice cream parlour, Italian, on the far side of the promenade and reached by a set of steps. Her mother reading Dickens—was it David Coppeifield? —and taking them to look at the house where the writer had lived.
She couldn't be making all that up. But how had it happened?
She had a vague recollection of going with her parents to visit some family friends who'd moved somewhere south of London.MoreLess
But Broadstairs? The southeast? That nub of land that jutted bluntly out into the Strait of Dover, the watery point wher...e the English Channel and the North Sea met.
Ramsgate, Margate, Broadstairs.
Stephen and herself playing cricket with their father on the sand, building castles that collapsed into the tide. An ice cream parlour, Italian, on the far side of the promenade and reached by a set of steps. Her mother reading Dickens—was it David Coppeifield? —and taking them to look at the house where the writer had lived.
She couldn't be making all that up. But how had it happened?
She had a vague recollection of going with her parents to visit some family friends who'd moved somewhere south of London.MoreLess
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