Wednesday, 4 August 2010

Gods Behaving Badly Locations

Missed this while I was away - interview with me, which you may or may not find interesting, but accompanied by a fantastic set of photos showing various locations from Gods Behaving Badly. Great work from Rachel at Londonist. And only when looking at the pictures did I realise that the book contains a major continuity error which escaped my editor and me through months of forensic corrections. See if you can figure it out, it's obvious from one of the photo captions (though of course you'll only spot it if you've read GBB).

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's escaped me, and I took the photos...

Anonymous said...

Oh, wait. Are we jumping seasons / temperatures at one point?

Marie said...

Nope. It's a geography issue...

Anonymous said...

Is it that benches don't overlook path? I just want the cash prize.

Marie said...

Well, quite possibly that's true. I thought there were benches that faced the path as well as down the hill but I didn't actually go up there to check. I don't know if that photo means there is no such bench or if Rachel took a picture from the bench in question and that's the view. But that's not the mistake I was thinking of. Maybe it's not such a big deal as I think it is.

Cash prize eh? Hmmm. Maybe I can offer a copy of GBB with the mistake highlighted in fluorescent pen.

Anonymous said...

There is, indeed, a bench in the spot in question and the photo is the view from the bench.

Actually, that photo is spot-the-deliberate-mistake. Even though I had the book on me, I didn't read the relevant page while I was on the top of Parliament Hill and thus forget the bit about overlooking the path. It's entirely coincidental that I got a photo from the right spot, most of the ones in my camera are from the other side of the path.

In my defence, it was hot and I'd been tricked by clouds into going out in jeans and an elbow-length sleeved top. *shakes head* An elbow-length sleeved top. Idiot.