“At the end of september 1970, shortly before I took up my position in Norwich, I drove out to Higham with Clara in search of somewhere to live.” (The Emigrants)
“In August 1992, when the dog days were drawing to an end, I set off to walk the county of Suffolk, in the hope of dispelling the emptiness that takes hold of me whenever I have completed a long stint of work.” (The Rings of Saturn)
“In the second half of the 1960s I traveled repeatedly from England to Belgium, partly for study purposes, partly for other reasons which were never entirely clear to me, staying sometimes for just one or two days, sometimes for several weeks.” (Austerlitz)
