Cover of the novel Fludd by Hilary Mantel

Another fictitious place based on reality is in Booker Prize winning author Hilary Mantel’s novel Fludd. The Derbyshire town of Hadfield, becomes her Featherhoughton, which “lay in moorland, which ringed it on three sides. The surrounding hills, from the village streets, looked like the hunched and bristling back of a sleeping dog. Let sleeping dogs lie, was the attitude of the people....They were not townspeople; they had none of their curiosity. They were not country people; they could tell a cow from a sheep but it was not their business. Cotton was their business, and had been for nearly a century”