South Riding hits the spot

The Guardian Thursday 3rd March, 2011

A reader writes: "I just read The Northerner on a balcony looking down to the Pacific from Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, and was immediately taken back to the world I grew up in long, long ago when there was still an East Riding. As long as it includes plenty of news of Hull, Beverly, Bridlington and Withernsea, it will undoubtedly thrive and prosper. Bravo!"And another says: "could we have a northern take on the new series of South Riding soon?" Bingo! For Winifred Holtby's fictitious South Riding was actually the East Riding; so here's killing (or actually praising) two

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