![]() ![]() And so begins a series of incredible deliveries, each one bringing Anna further out of the shadows and encouraging her to become the woman she was destined to be. Inside she finds a beautiful gift – one that is designed to be seen. But someone thinks Anna Browne deserves more… When a parcel addressed to Anna Browne arrives, she has no idea who has sent it. Her day job as a receptionist in bustling London isn’t exactly her dream, yet she has everything she wants. “Anna Browne is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life. A Parcel for Anna Browne by Miranda Dickinson ![]() Between her visits to the doctor and the music lessons she gives to bored teenagers, she is trying to rebuild a life. It’s not immediately clear why her neighbour, Solomon, is living in the village, but his African origin suggests a complex history that is at odds with his dull routine of washing the car and making short trips to the supermarket.”ĥ. “Dorothy has walked away from a bad thirty-year marriage, an affair gone sour and a dangerous obsession. But nonetheless, these novels set in London will give you a good feel for the history, culture, and geography of the city. This is, of course, not an exhaustive list, and like all non-exhaustive lists the choices made for its content are, to some extent, subjective. London epitomizes all of those things, and so here is your list of 100 novels set in London, whether wholly or partly set there - in different parts of the city, in different sort of communities, at different points in history. ![]() Rich, poor, hopeless or spurred by the dream that brought them to the city in the first place, they come from all over the world and speak many languages, many varieties of each of those languages. ![]() There’s a reason cities are such fertile terrain for novels: they’re full to the brim with people, in all their variety. She also hosts the Brit Lit Podcast, a fortnightly show of news and views from British books and publishing. She is the author of Unscripted, a novel about a young woman with a celebrity crush and a determined plan, and the editor of Walk With Us: How The West Wing Changed Our Lives. Claire Handscombe moved from Europe to DC in 2012, ostensibly to study for an MFA in Creative Writing, but actually – let’s be honest – because of an obsession with The West Wing. ![]()
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