The Wee Free Men

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The Chalk has many similarities to the English Wiltshire region, where Terry himself comes from. He says:

“[It’s] based wherever there was something I wanted. But probably mostly on the southern Chalk, it’s true. It’s what I know.

The term ‘the Chalk’, by the way, is not from Kipling as suggested elsewhere. It used to be, and may still be, a general term for, well, the chalk country. I actually do have a copy of an old book called Wild Flowers of the Chalk…”