“We are all the sum of how our parents raised us, the friends we played with, the places we played,” Cleeves says. It was a sojourn that brought the author a new setting, new characters, a new book series and, coming soon, a new TV series. So I have an old, very good school friend who still lives in Barnstaple, and I went and stayed with her for a few weeks.” “And the memories of Tim were so very raw.” Cleeves’ two daughters lived very close to their parents’ home in Whitley Bay, Northumberland, on England’s northeast coast, but “I thought they needed a break from me and I needed a break from them. “I just wanted to be somewhere where I wasn’t going to get that pity and sympathy,” she says in an interview. 16, 2017, after being admitted for a heart condition. One of the best-known and best-loved British crime writers at work today, Cleeves unexpectedly lost her husband of 40 years when he died in hospital on Dec. Ann Cleeves, 65, was on the run two years ago when she came home to Devon and the English West Country town of Barnstaple, where she had spent “magical” teen years.
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