![]() ![]() ![]() What happened in some parts of the City hundreds of years ago still echoes today and in Ackroyd's world has the power to influence the present.Ī film maker plans to make a modern day take on Little Dorrit and starts hunting round the old site of the Marshalsea prison. A few years ago in his London series on television he explained the ley lines and the way that London seems to hold history like a sponge. ![]() Having read some Peter Ackroyd before the technique of overlapping history in different parts of London is not something unfamiliar.īut this was the first time he tried it in his debut novel and this sets up what he later on perfected as a style that would become synonymous with him. ![]()
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