 Complete the following phrase:  On his website, Tim Pears reveals that the novel is set in the Devon village where he grew up Trusham on the edge of Dartmoor He had written many appalling poems in his twenties then adapted one into a story; this liberated him and he never wrote another poem; just stories which eventually became this, his first novel. He cites his other influences as Gabriel Garcia Marquezs One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marc Chagalls paintings of the 