If you were to write about the sea, Nottingham is probably not the location you'd choose for literary inspiration - it's around 80 miles to Skegness as you head to the east coast for instance, and even further in the opposite direction towards the country's west coastline. However, according to the selling agent for this home, The Old Post House in Wollaton lays claim to being the location where Nicholas Monsarrat penned The Cruel Sea, a novel written in the late 1940s.
That aside, it is easy to see why the location would have been a tranquil place to put pen to paper. Pretty gardens, a
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