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Cambridge literature
I've been thinking sporadically over the last couple of weeks...
And now I've written that sentence, I really want to end this post there.
...that it would be nice to be reading some Cambridge books while I'm here. I often like to do this - I took The Nine Tailors with me for a memorable holiday in Norfolk; Persuasion when I visited Lyme Regis; one of Bill Bryson's books about America when I was in the US; Outlander in the Highlands and so on. But I've been struggling to come up with any. Which strikes me as odd. I have several very much loved Oxford books - Gaudy Night, The Ready Made Family, The Subtle Knife, and so on.
What am I missing? What would you recommend? Preferably fiction, set at any time within the last 800 years. Though if you have a particularly splendid non-fiction book set in the city that you want to suggest, I'm open to that too.
ETA: Suggestions of Cambridge poems also welcome. The only one I can think of is The Old Vicarage, Grantchester.

And now I've written that sentence, I really want to end this post there.
...that it would be nice to be reading some Cambridge books while I'm here. I often like to do this - I took The Nine Tailors with me for a memorable holiday in Norfolk; Persuasion when I visited Lyme Regis; one of Bill Bryson's books about America when I was in the US; Outlander in the Highlands and so on. But I've been struggling to come up with any. Which strikes me as odd. I have several very much loved Oxford books - Gaudy Night, The Ready Made Family, The Subtle Knife, and so on.
What am I missing? What would you recommend? Preferably fiction, set at any time within the last 800 years. Though if you have a particularly splendid non-fiction book set in the city that you want to suggest, I'm open to that too.
ETA: Suggestions of Cambridge poems also welcome. The only one I can think of is The Old Vicarage, Grantchester.

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Did Iris Murdoch set anything in Cambridge? Or Margaret Drabble? They might be worth looking at. I have visions of that host of intelligent 50s/early 60s women who did degrees at Cambridge and then wrote novels to stop themselves going mad when their husbands went to the library and pub and they had to stay in and handwash nappies.
*Though Frederica deserves some note as an extraordinary canon Mary-Sue.
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I greatly enjoyed Walsh's "Knowledge of Angels" and thought it well-written but then I was coming at it from a sympathetic viewpoint (and also it felt a bit like a giant Karen Blixen story). I'd forgotten that I meant to read Goldengrove Unleaving - think I'll have to go to the library.