![]() ![]() The place was full of odd stories and local village legends – there was said to be a bottomless pit, for instance, called the Devil’s Pit – and these things obviously fed into my childhood imagination and remained with me into adulthood. In that way I suppose I was quite like the protagonist in that novel. I grew up in the barren, treeless Lincolnshire fens, but at my grandmother’s I could go and wander off all day in the woods, surrounded by nature. ![]() “The Listeners was borne out of my memories of my grandmother’s house, which was in a tiny village near Swaffham. Since then he’s published two books – a novel, The Listeners, that he started during his time at UEA, and a new work of narrative non-fiction, Ghostland, published this month.Įdward has lived in Norfolk for the past 20 years and starts by explaining how the landscape of his home county has influenced the two books he’s written. ![]() "I never would've written my first book had I not have done the course"Įdward Parnell graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 2007. School of Education and Lifelong LearningĮdward Parnell, MA in Creative Writing, on his new book and how he’s been influenced by the Norfolk landscape ![]() School of Politics, Philosophy and Communication Studies School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities ![]()
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