The Love Muffin map — the real places in every book
Every Love Muffin story is set in a real British city, and the places are real. This map grows by one city with every book. If you live there and we have got a street wrong, tell us at hello@giddymoose.com — we will fix it and thank you in the next edition.
Bradford — Six Kinds of Mmm
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- Bradford Central Library — Grace's library — the catalogue drawers, the 900s, the after-hours cart.
- Kirkgate Market, Bradford — The cabbage Saturday. Go early; the stall temperature is exactly as written.
- City Park, Bradford — The Mirror Pool, which has opinions about the weather and is walked past in every chapter.
- Bradford City Hall — The clock Grace checks when she is pretending not to count.
Bradford — The Wrong Kind of Wonderful
Book 1 · coming soon
- Bradford Central Library — Where a man returns a book fourteen weeks late with the fine pre-counted in coins.
- Saltaire — The Saturday chapter. Salts Mill, the canal, the model village that a mill-owner built for his workers.
- Lister Park, Bradford — Cartwright Hall and the boating lake — Nadia's thinking walk.
- Shipley Glen — The tramway and the moor edge; the chapter in the rain.
- Kirkgate Market, Bradford — The mug, the cabbage, 'I don't eat cheese / I know.'
Manchester — The Accountability Mistake
Book 2 · coming soon
- Northern Quarter, Manchester — Erin's walk to work and the café with the honest coffee.
- Chorlton, Manchester — Beech Road — the doorstep where everything is said on a Friday.
- Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester — The first proper afternoon; the gallery café and the park behind it.
- Didsbury, Manchester — Tom's church hall — the red-brick Edwardian one with the lit doorway.
- Ancoats, Manchester — The canal walk where the journal changes hands.
Birmingham — Married But Still Drifting
Book 3 · coming soon
- Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham — Daniel's bench — Vyse Street, the Assay Office, the Chamberlain Clock.
- St Paul's Square, Birmingham — The civic-commission unveiling, where Hannah meets Rachel.
- Bournville, Birmingham — The village the Quakers built — the carillon, the greens, Hannah's school tours.
- Cadbury World, Birmingham — The coach-trip chaos, twenty-eight Year Fours at a time.
- Bullring, Birmingham — The bench where a man puts his leaflets under his arm and pours tea from a flask.
- Moseley, Birmingham — St Chad's and the Athertons' Sunday lunch, trifle included.
Durham — The Hug That Lasted Too Long
Book 4 · in the writing
- Durham Cathedral — Jonah's lodge — the banker shop behind the cathedral, where new stone is cut to sit beside the old.
- Palace Green, Durham — The second hug, under the Lumiere lights, in front of everyone.
- Prebends Bridge, Durham — The almost-kiss, and the stepping back.
- Durham Market Place — The covered market steps, and a man who folds his FREE PRAYER sign flat before he speaks.
- Beamish Museum — Simran's 1913 village — the bait tin, the chapel, the sweetshop.
- Chester-le-Street — Peggy and Alf's kitchen table, where nothing is off limits.
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