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Bewick Walks to Scotland 2004, The Great North Road 2007, dealt with similar themes of searching the countryside between and in England and Scotland.
Bewick ,being a Newcastle artist who spent a summer of his youth walking to and round central Scotland, was a great  focus of these concerns of mine. By this time I was writing The Bees, planted firmly in Scotland, I had cleared these ideas about the length and breadth of the country - the same theme as in Looking for Scotland and the same theme of a novel I wrote earlier.