Rooms of Ones Own: 50 Places That Made Literary History

Writers Relationships With Their Surroundings Are Seldom Straightforward. While Some, Like Jane Austen And Thomas Mann, Wrote Novels Set Where They Were Staying (Lyme Regis And Venice Respectively), Victor Hugo Penned Les Misrables In An Attic In Guernsey And Nol Coward Wrote That Most English Of Plays, Blithe Spirit, In The Welsh Holiday Village Of Portmeirion.Award-Winning Bbc Drama Producer Adrian Mourby Follows His Literary Heroes Around The World, Exploring 50 Places Where Great Works Of Literature First Saw The Light Of Day. At Each Destination - From The Bronts Yorkshire Moors To The New York Of Truman Capote, Christopher IsherwoodS Berlin To The Now-Legendary Edinburgh Caf Where J.K. Rowling Plotted Harry PotterS First Adventures - Mourby Explains What The Writer Was Doing There And Describes What The Visitor Can Find Today Of That Great Moment In Literature.Rooms Of OneS Own Takes You On A Literary Journey From The British Isles To Paris, Berlin, New Orleans, New York And Bangkok And Unearths The Real-Life Places Behind Our Best-Loved Works Of Literature.