A Little Bit of Devon, a Little Bit of Heaven ; a Hidden Gem of the English Seaside Brings Out the Romantic in Ray Connolly Who Uses It As the Setting for His Own Love Story

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YOU won't find a place called the North Devon Riviera on any map or in a guidebook because it doesn't actually exist. I made the name up to describe a beautiful stretch of the coast for a novel I've written called Love Out Of Season.

I didn't want to upset the people of Lynmouth by reordering their beautiful little town so that it fitted my story.

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A Little Bit of Devon, a Little Bit of Heaven ; a Hidden Gem of the English Seaside Brings Out the Romantic in Ray Connolly Who Uses It As the Setting for His Own Love Story

Novelists do this all the time. Usually, though, we don't own up to it.

But when I first visited Lynmouth about four years ago and walked the surrounding cliffs and moors, it seemed to me to be the most perfect place for a romantic story.

I think it's one of the prettiest and most unspoilt seasid...

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