The Berkeley Guides:
Great Britain and Northern Ireland:
East Anglia
By Julie Jares
The landscape of East Anglia is easy to define: flat. Especially in North Norfolk, nothing punctuates the smooth countryside except the stray farmhouse or cathedral, nothing except puddles, fens, and acre upon acre of waterlogged bog. Graham Swift's fine novel Waterland, set in these fens, discusses at length the uniform levelness of East Anglia, broken only by ditches and drains that seem at times "like silver, copper or golden wires across the fields and which, when you stood and looked at them, made you shut one eye and fall prey to fruitless meditations on the laws of perspective."
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