Fictional Lockdown Location?

[Chickoletta]

Just for fun - if you could spend lockdown in a location (time/place/world) from a novel or play, where would it be?

For me, it would be Rivendell from TLOTR. With its mountain backdrop, gentle running water and constant singing, I think it would be very soothing. Also, ‘evil can never come to Rivendell’, which is nice to know.

There’s a 1970s pebble dashed bungalow around the corner from us called Rivendell - I always think it’s a lot to live up to for a little house!

Rivendell would be perfect! I’m going to have to agree with you there. I’ve been reading plenty books so I’ve been all over the place and back in time these last few months.

I'd see if there was a vacancy at The Chalet School and amuse myself by seeing how long it would take before I got expelled.

Ooh yes, the Chalet School would be a laugh. Could see if Hogwarts and Malory Towers have spaces too. I’m a teacher, so could make myself useful, although I’m not great on either transfiguration or lacrosse....

Pretty sure I wouldn’t want to spend lockdown in a boarding school full of teenage girls! Was bad enough doing that when I was a teenage girl. Although didn’t Mallory Towers have a rock pool swimming pool? Always wanted to swim in that & cook sausages on a little stove. Real boarding school was more pot noodles made with luke warm tap water - big, big disappointment!

Rivendell would be nice but as I’m currently looking like the bride of Frankenstein, all those impossibly beautiful elves would be irksome.

I’m going to go for Hemingway’s 1920’s Paris - fell in love with that reading A Moveable Feast.

Unoriginal but Hogwarts for me I think.

Chickoletta do you live in Stonehaven? There are 2 Rivendells there, one fairly ordinary and one with a lovely sea view. Neither with elves though I have been tempted to chap the door...

It's not a book but a film - Sleeping With The Enemy.
The house in it was amazing, modern, on a beach.
Sadly I think it was built for the film and subsequent demolished.

Has anyone read the seven sisters books by Lucinda Riley? I wouldn’t mind staying in Atlantis, the family’s mansion on lake Geneva .

Rebecca's house, for me, but without the book's inhabitants. Frenchman's Creek would also do, and in that case I would keep the French pirate, who I've always pictured as a young Eric Cantona.

Avonlea please.

I suspect it would probably be a location in some particularly cheesy romance novel as what I'm really wanting is a beach view and my own pool, so I need someone already in possession of those. (Probably a good looking but reclusive millionaire. Actually, scrub the good looking bit. Don't care about looks, I only want him for his pool.)