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For Penelope Fitzgerald, memories began at Balcombe, in a 'homely-mock Tudor house with a lawn and a cherry tree'. Late in life, she remembered it as an idyll: the flowering cherry and the walnut tree outside her window, her secret hiding place between the double rose hedge, the rabbit that was always getting lost, the low murmuring of the hens, the baker delivering bred in his pony-trap [...].

Hermione Lee, Penelope Fitzgerald - A Life.