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BOOKISH IN BRITAIN

SOMETHING ABOUT GREAT BRITAIN felt extremely familiar from the moment I set foot on its shores. But I couldn’t, for the life of me, put a finger on it. It continued to niggle as I was driven through the purple, heather-covered slopes of the Peak District; when my friend and I hiked along lanes bordered by jigsaw-like drystone walls, pushed through prickly gorse, and crossed farms and fields through gates that politely asked you to keep them latched and over stiles; when we watched the sheep dotting the landscape of the Yorkshire Dales as the sun went down.

It was much later at King’s Cross in London that the penny dropped—that luggage trolley pushed halfway into the wall separating the main concourse and the platforms did it. Though it

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