Great Hockham
The Breckland novelist Michael Home (1885-1973) was
born in Great Hockham in 1885. He was educated at
Thetford Grammar and at King's College London and fought
in both world wars.
Michael Home was his pen-name and he used it to write
over 50 detective novels. However, under his real name -
Christopher Bush - he wrote nine novels about Breackland
life. The first of these was entitled God and the
Rabbit and was published in 1934. In the novel he
transforms Great Hockham into the fictional village of 'Heathley'
- portraying the isolation and poverty of rural life
at the turn of the century.
He also wrote 3 autobiographical novels entitled:
Autumn Fields, Spring Sowing and Winter
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