• Margot Bennett’s THE WIDOW OF BATH Part Two: a North Foreland discovery

  • Jul 17 2023
  • Length: 59 mins
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Margot Bennett’s THE WIDOW OF BATH Part Two: a North Foreland discovery

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  • We return to Ramsgate in Kent with Margot Bennett’s brilliant thriller THE WIDOW OF BATH as our only guide. The book was published in 1952, the same year as rock and roll had its birthday. We’re looking for a hat shop and a suspicous employment agency and we’re pretty confident we’ve found both.


    We date the book’s action to 1951 with some of our usual close reading, before visiting our final location. The house of the deceased, Judge Bath, is described by Bennett as being five miles from the location of the book, on a clifftop looking over a bay. If you go five miles north from Ramsgate, you find yourself at North Foreland. And here there is something else extraordinary: another house, in which a writer completed his own chase thriller 40 years before Bennett’s. And in front of that house is a set of steps that go down to the sea.


    But that’s another story. For now, we leave you with one plea: read Margot Bennett. She deserves to be far better known than she is.


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