The Cornish background: Jenny grew up in West Cornwall, where most people worked in fishing or mining…. later, daughters Alice and Zoe see West Cornwall as where they go for holidays, staying in Granny’s converted-chapel house… sun, sea, and surf… below are my selection of typical ‘holiday type’ and other pictures of the West Cornwall area…
In The Labyrinth Year (book 2 of the Mullins family series) the family are now based in Oxford… walk around the city and view places the family would know well… a very different environment for the children than where their parents grew up… a sophisticated, academic, intellectual city, a tourist venue, with several prestigious private schools… pictured below some sights they’d find familiar: Magdalen Bridge, Walton Street (Jericho), a typical leafy residential area, 2 views of the University Science area, and one of a corner of the (Victorian built) University Museum… not the whole story of Oxford, but how the city presents to the visitor…
