You know, don’t get too lost, but don’t go with directions in mind.” She says, “I got purposefully lost, something my mother had always told me to do. One day, she hitched a ride with an acquaintance to the Lake District, where she found herself with a free day in the “very remote, beautiful little village” of Ambleside. Understandably, the then 23-year-old seized any opportunity for a change of scenery. Schwab says, “You could literally hear his footsteps moving through the halls and down the stairs a few times a day.” Her landlord was a former prison warden who also owned a neighboring house that was “benignly haunted” by a man who had lived there for 40 years. Schwab relocated from Nashville to Liverpool, England, where she paid 200 pounds per month to live in an unheated garden shed furnished with a single bed and a metal bar for hanging clothes. SHED DREAD Ten years ago, at the suggestion of a friend who is no longer a friend, the fantasy author V.E.
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