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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 Harvest.

Great Hockham Cottages

Great Hockham Cottages

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Great Hockham Village SIgn

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