![]() ![]() So Ghostland came out of that, though it became something much more personal that the ideas we first discussed. ![]() So of course I went and met him and we discovered we had a shared love of 1970s horror films. A commissioning editor at Harper Collins read it and emailed me to ask if I’d ever thought about writing a book on the subject. James and a visit I took to the place where he grew up, in Suffolk. “Ghostland came about after I wrote a blog post about M. 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. Edward Parnell graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 2007. ![]()
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