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1950s, 1970s: Is the truth a legacy worth inheriting?
A Legacy of Secrets
What you need to know before your trail
Flick Templeton seems to have it all: money, a renowned family name, brains and talent. But her wealth and status seem an obstacle to the real love she longs for. Guided by passion, she seeks her soulmate while finding her own path – but will the legendary family curse of tragedy and loss always thwart her?
Etta, Flick’s daughter, inherits her own share of the family blessings along with its darkness. Growing up, she is pulled between caring for her mother and finding her own identity. As Etta unravels the threads of Flick’s secrets, she starts to learn the truth about who she really is . . .
But can Flick and Etta ever break truly free from the shadows of a painful past, and the curse that seems to hang over every generation of their family?
Locations
Reset- England - Dorset
- A: Caundle Court/Athelhampton House
- B: Sherborne Castle
- England - Oxford
- C: The Sheldonian Theatre
- D: The Randolph Hotel
- England - London
- E: Meard St
- F: Gordon Mansions
- America/ USA - New York
- G: York Ave
Travel Guide
Caundle Court in Dorset
Fictional but it’s a melange of houses the author imagined. I had in my mind something similar to Athelhampton House, which is in the beautiful Piddle valley, although the house in my book was once a small priory and is now a home, where my heroine Flick grows up.
Oxford
I based St Pandiona’s on a real house in North Oxford, built in the Gothic Revival style, once called Gunfield, that now belongs to St Edmund Hall, an Oxford college.
Legacy locations with Lulu Taylor
London
Flick lives in Soho in the 1950s, when it is a louche place and London is still full of post war poverty and bomb damage. She has a basement flat in one of the Georgian houses on Meard Street, a pedestrianised thoroughfare between Dean Street and Wardour Street.
New York
Flick and Etta both spend time in New York. Etta has a little apartment in Manhattan and I imagined her living in York Place on the Upper East Side, where there are beautiful houses and gorgeous flats.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: A Legacy of Secrets
Destination/location: London, Dorset, Oxford, New York Author/guide: Lulu Taylor Departure Time: 1950s, 1970s
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