I Thought I Knew You - Facts

 

The characters living in a small village in the Fens. The Fens or Fenlands in eastern England are a naturally marshy region supporting a rich ecology and numerous species. The Fens lie inland of the Wash, and are an area of nearly 3,900 km2 in the south east of Lincolnshire, most of Cambridgeshire (which also includes parts of the old historic county of Huntingdonshire), and western-most parts of Norfolk and Suffolk.

When Saul goes missing, Rowan says that he want to the market in Ely. Ely is a cathedral city and civil parish in   Cambridgeshire, 14 miles northeast of Cambridge, 24 miles southeast of Peterborough and 80 miles from London. 

Ouse Washes is where the body thought to be Saul's is found. Ouse Washes is a linear 2,513.6-hectare  biological Site of Special Scientific Interest stretching from near St Ives in Cambridgeshire to Downham Market in Norfolk.

Saul is found in the chapel of Lincoln's Inn Fields. Lincoln's Inn Fields is a public square in London, the largest in the city, located in the Holborn area and adjacent to Lincoln's Inn.

John Donne is the poet that Saul reads. John Donne (1571 or 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England.  He is considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His poetical works are noted for their metaphorical and sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs and satires. He is also known for his sermons.