A Sense Of Place - Tavistock As A Setting

About the show

Jackie Waddle: Jackie has been writing fiction for several decades. She has completed three novels and a selection of short stories and poems over the years. She publishes her work under the name of Anna West and has recently revised her first novel, Breaking New Ground, for Amazon KDP.

Jackie has studied through Exeter University and Manchester Metropolitan University, gaining an MA in Creative Writing with Pedagogic Studies at MMU, in 2015. Since the publication of her first novel, in 2008, Jackie has worked with medical and dental students at Exeter and Plymouth Universities, providing Medical Humanities Special Studies Units, as part of a module in the medical degree. Among her friends, Jackie is known for her culinary art and she has hosted many meals, cake dates and buffet parties, providing home-cooked delicacies. She posts regularly on Instagram in her own name - @jackiewaddle.

Music has also featured in her life: she studied flute in adult life and has played in local bands and ensembles for the past 25 years. Both of these passions feature greatly in her fiction.

TALK: In my novels, I have created a fictitious place called Hexbury which is based on Tavistock. I will explain how an author uses location as a backdrop, and how, in a fictitious book, the setting can be moulded into a slightly different place to suit the characters and the story.

There will be pictures of the places around Tavistock used in my novels. I also talk about other authors and how they have used familiar places as settings for their novels. I also include the connections and emotional attachments that people make with places such as Tavistock and the surrounding areas