Charfield - Gloucestershire
Nick Blackstock, the author of SOMETHING HIDDEN, to be published by Picnic is April 2009, writes:
‘My starting point for my latest book involved researching the background to a railway accident in Charfield, Gloucestershire in 1928 on which the novel is based. Obviously, the circumstances in which the bodies of two apparently well dressed and well cared for children could be killed without being missed, struck a national chord. There was massive publicity and everyone, it appeared, had a theory. These ranged from the relatively sane to the totally mind boggling. However, and given that when I was writing the book I did not know it would be published by Picnic, there are two picnics in it. One in France before the First World War, another on the South Coast of England between the wars. However, I have chosen to recommend Gloucestershire, one of the loveliest of counties.
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