The Long Lavender Look [SEP] narrative location
The Long Lavender Look
The Long Lavender Look (1970) is the twelfth novel in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald. After the preceding book, "Dress Her in Indigo", which was largely set in Mexico, "The Long Lavender Look" not only returns to McGee's usual haunt of Florida, but is almost entirely set in one tiny town deep in the rural part of the state.
The plot begins when McGee and Meyer are driving late at night down a deserted Florida highway, when
. Any reopening might affect the operations of the Lavender Line or entail a move to a new location, however there is no definite statement on this point and in any event the campaign has not succeeded.
The Preservation Society expressed an interest in itself restoring and reopening the line between Uckfield and Lewes in the long-term future. In December 2008, a petition was presented to East Sussex County Council asking it to acquire the trackbed from the Lavender Line's northern boundary to the former site of Uckfield station, to lease