{"product_id":"dickenss-kent-by-peter-clark-9781914982118","title":"Dickens's Kent","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA geographical narrative of Charles Dickens's life in Kent.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFew novelists have written so intimately about a city as Charles Dickens wrote about London, but he was intimately connected to Kent more than any other part of Britain. Perhaps Kent meant more to him than the capital.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe had an idyllic childhood in Chatham, and Kent features in his first works of fiction, \u003cem\u003eSketches by Boz\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Pickwick Papers\u003c\/em\u003e, and in his favourite novel, \u003cem\u003eDavid Copperfield\u003c\/em\u003e. In his last ten years, he wrote two novels with strong Kentish themes, \u003cem\u003eGreat Expectations\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Mystery of Edwin Drood\u003c\/em\u003e. He had his honeymoon outside Gravesend and often spent the summer months in Broadstairs. In 1856, he bought Gad's Hill Place, near Rochester, and died there in 1870.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDickens's Kent\u003c\/em\u003e begins with the description of a walk from London to Dickens's main residence, Gad's Hill Place, before taking the reader to areas in Kent most closely associated with his life and work: the Medway Towns and their surroundings, Thanet and East Kent, and finally Staplehurst, the scene of the railway accident that nearly killed him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072172048620,"sku":"9781914982118","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/22489673482869.jpg?v=1765083402","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/dickenss-kent-by-peter-clark-9781914982118","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}