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Re: 'Sight Unseen'
Jun 26, 2017, 10:30
tjj wrote:
I'm in a reading group which often challenges me to read something I wouldn't otherwise pick up. The current book is anything by Robert Goddard - I chose 'Sight Unseen' which starts "It begins at Avebury ..." How could I resist.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-440-24280-2

What bothers me though, is that while the author gets all the other details about Avebury correct (the Red Lion, Green Street, Silbury House) he refers to the Cove stones as the Adam and Eve stones. What takes place by these stones is integral to the plot. How can I let this little mistake undermine the rest of the novel - but somehow it does. Does this make me an anorak?


One of the 'Adam and Eve' stones is part of a cove. Perhaps thats what the author was referring to?

One time I was walking along Bray St I got talking to an old boy, a local, and he told me that locals always used to refer to Adam and Eve as the King and Queen. I'd never heard that before.
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