But she did not abandon her childhood memories of rural Warwickshire. Her novels draw affectionately, and in considerable detail, upon the Midlands world in the centre of England where she grew up.

• 但她从未放弃对华立克郡农村童年的回忆，她的小说很多取材于英国中部地区农村，对她成长的地方有细腻深情的描述。