Budleigh in Books: Part 3
Click here to read my earlier post Budleigh in Books: Part 2 and here to read Budleigh in Books: Part 1 The English novelist Clare Morrall, born in Exeter in 1952, has lived mainly in Birmingham but has a strong attachment to East Devon. Her mother lived in Lympstone, and she has been a frequent visitor to the area over the years. The Man Who Disappeared , published in 2010, is her fourth novel. It raises the issue of how well one can ever really know another person, using the device of an apparently happy marriage which suddenly falls apart when a secret is revealed. In the novel, Felix and Kate Kendall buy a house in Budleigh Salterton. He then disappears and is sought by police for money-laundering. The novel explores the impact of these events on his family. It was, Clare Morrall was reported as saying, a real pleasure setting her latest book in the surroundings where she grew up. “...