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From January to June 1922 he attended a cramming establishment in Southwold to prepare for his Indian Police Service exams and his career in Burma.

In 1929 after eighteen months in Paris he returned to the family home at Southwold and spent most of the next five years based at Southwold.

He tutored a disabled child and a family of three boys during this time and wrote reviews and developed Burmese Days.

During this period he spent nearly eighteen months teaching in West London until he had a serious bout of pneumonia.

His mother then insisted that he stay at home instead of carrying on teaching and he spent the time writing A Clergyman's Daughter.

The novel is partly set in a fictionalised East Anglian town called " Knype Hill ".

His final visit to Southwold was in 1939.