Why a Booktrail?
2000s: A story of long distance love spanning from North Norfolk to British Columbia
The Turning Point
What you need to know before your trail
You finally meet a guy only to discover that he lives thousands of miles away and that there may be more than one obstacle in your way than just the usual. Obstacles such as an ocean, land, different continents.
Musician Scott and children’s author Frankie meet by chance one weekend and this is the challenge they face. Frankie and her children live by the coast of North Norfolk while Scott’s roots lie deep in the mountains of British Columbia. But caution is thrown to the wind and they want to see what happens and where this could all lead.
Sometimes sacrifices and risks are worth taking but then equally fate has a terrible way of destroying things when you least expect it. Can they all hang on and will love find a way?
Locations
ResetTravel Guide
From North Norfolk to British Columbia via a chance encounter in London.
London
Scott Emerson and Frankie Shaw meet by chance in London. They’re both in their forties and neither are looking for love but as they saying goes, love comes and creeps up on you when you least expect it. The downside to this is that their respective homes in British Columbia and Norfolk seem that little too far apart for any kind of relationship to work.
But what is distance when love in on the cards? Will fate step in and keep them apart?
British Columbia
Where Scott lives and at the start of the novel, the sense of space, his life style and personality are all tied up with where he lives and breathes, a visceral and raw place but one in his heart –
“Alone in his truck on an empty stretch of road in the middle of Thompson country…
For the previous half an hour, as she drove from the belly of Kamloops and through the entrails of its suburbs”
The sense of time and space and a clue to Scott’s character are tall tied up with this stunning of locations
Norfolk
Freya describes the beaches and scenery around Norfolk which is the setting for Frankie’s home, also an author. Seen through the eyes of an author both as the writer and a character makes for a unique view of the area, with words painting the sea, sand, smells and essence of Norfolk.
Finding her home sadly not in the pricy Burhmans but in a town two miles from the sea –
“She was aware that the interior of the house had seduced her as much as the vast sky and endless quiet lanes.”
It’s the sense of feeling as detached as the house which appeals. Wanting to have her own life and to start over, so when she meets the Canadian who lives in the rugged mountains of BC, whether this sense of detachment will ever leave her is the story which is explored.
Two very different people from opposite ends of the earth and two very different landscapes – can distance ever be the biggest barrier to love?
Streetview Maps
1) Canada, BC: Kamloops
The beauty of this area is renowned
The beauty of this area is renowned
2) Burnham Market
On the other side of the world...Frankie dreams of this
On the other side of the world...Frankie dreams of this
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