Christmas Letter 2024

Greetings for this Advent and Christmas season!

All the Light we Cannot See is a 2014 novel written by Anthony Doerr set in the French town of St Malo during the second world war. It tells a story of resistance, the miracle of radio and the capacity we share for both love and violence. It centres on Marie Laure LeBlanc a blind French girl whose remarkable story finds her broadcasting messages to the Allies, messages that become crucial to the town’s liberation. The story also includes several other significant characters, particularly older people. There is a group of older ladies, who pretend to meet to knit and gossip, yet in plain view, orchestrate resistance activities, send messages, monitor the ships in the harbour and navigate change. Often this comes at a cost, sometimes they are caught, but they keep going anyway in the valiant hope of creating a different world for the generations to come.

 You can zoom in on the map. Clicking on place markers will give the name of the church and also a link to its page on this site. The county areas of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk are shown on this map. Norfolk is shaded in a salmon colour, Suffolk pale blue and Cambridgeshire pale green.

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