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Without naming the book , where is the setting for the last book you read?

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OneUmberJoker · 26/09/2025 13:25

Down town Texas

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JustMeAndTheFish · 28/09/2025 20:59

MotherFluffyBottom · 28/09/2025 20:23

No, Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke. It's a great book, I would recommend.

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Aha. Yes. I have started it and it’s one of the no more than five books I didn’t finish.

Purplebunnie · 28/09/2025 20:45

MouseTheDog · 28/09/2025 16:45

I’m on the ninth 😁

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Oooh I need to know what this is please

BackToRealitySigh · 28/09/2025 20:25

London - just before and during 2012 Olympics

(Loved it and read it all in one day)

MotherFluffyBottom · 28/09/2025 20:23

JustMeAndTheFish · 28/09/2025 08:22

Is this Midlife Magic?

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No, Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke. It's a great book, I would recommend.

Wouldprefertobereading · 28/09/2025 18:52

Bonhomie, a small town in America 1930’s to 1970’s

Arran2024 · 28/09/2025 17:54

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 28/09/2025 17:12

John Irving?

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No, Elizabeth Strout

RubieChewsDay · 28/09/2025 17:23

Last book was set mainly in present day Kent.

Current book Peckham and Brighton.

I have also very recently read the one set in Denmark Street though 😊

BreadInCaptivity · 28/09/2025 17:20

It starts on the planet of Caladan.

(Reading said book for about the 20th time).

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 28/09/2025 17:12

Arran2024 · 28/09/2025 10:59

Maine. A surprisingly large number of the books I read seem to be set there.

John Irving?

GardenersDelight · 28/09/2025 17:06

Modern day lake district

bumblebee1000 · 28/09/2025 16:58

1970's Poland.

Cocothepoodle · 28/09/2025 16:54

MouseTheDog · 28/09/2025 16:45

I’m on the ninth 😁

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I'm already excited for that one!

MouseTheDog · 28/09/2025 16:45

Cocothepoodle · 26/09/2025 13:48

6th floor of the dungeon

I’m on the ninth 😁

TheGigoloAunt · 28/09/2025 16:41

Embo, Scotland.

ItsJustASimpleLine · 28/09/2025 15:37

Sticklepond

Batmam · 28/09/2025 15:05

Couldn’t be more London, 2019

hiredandsqueak · 28/09/2025 12:45

Isle of Skye

OakleyStreetisnotinChelsea · 28/09/2025 12:45

Hell

backslashruby · 28/09/2025 12:43

Whittlesey

Rokerwriter · 28/09/2025 12:05

Newport, Rhode Island

StrikeForever · 28/09/2025 11:17

The last two were set in Dublin

cloudjumper · 28/09/2025 11:05

Book 1: Greece
Book 2: England, all over Europe and the Middle East

Arran2024 · 28/09/2025 10:59

Maine. A surprisingly large number of the books I read seem to be set there.

MannyTeddy · 28/09/2025 10:54

Cork and Oxford.

whirlyhead · 28/09/2025 10:38

Russia, North Korea, America 2018. Featuring trump and it’s fiction!

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