The church Flora describes as looking like Batman.
Paige lives in one of these houses, across the road from the sea.
Jubilee Pool
Morrab Gardens
The gates to Morrab Gardens. Flora walks through these gardens with her mother, early in the book.
A small black stone from the beach
Flora bought her fake fur coat right here.
This is not from the book but we had to photograph it anyway.

Flora’s Penzance

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The One Memory of Flora Banks begins with Flora living her tightly-controlled life at home in Penzance. I love Penzance and visit as often as I can. It’s a beautiful town, with class and edge and fresh sea air, and it’s an inspiring place to go to write.

The other day my partner Craig and I went for a walk around Flora’s Penzance, as part of a revisiting of the book’s locations we’re doing to coincide with publication. Here are some pictures (and yes, Svalbard is up next – watch this space).

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