Cambridge literature

[girlyswot]

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.

Comments

[white_hart]

Yeah, I think I might give that one a miss. There's Lorna Hill's Stolen Holiday, but I'm unlikely to be able to track down a reasonably-priced copy in the next three days (which is rather a shame, as we'll be staying almost exactly where the book is set!).

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Oh - while you are in Edinburgh, you should go to the Children's Bookshop aka Fidra Books. I bet they have Lorna Hill.

[white_hart]

They probably do and are certainly on my list! It does look as though GGBP reissued Stolen Holiday recently so they might have one. It would be rather marvellous to reread it only a few miles from Seahouses!