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So … My turn to try to get this thread back on topic. I looked at the last status report again, and looking at the sneak peek of the background art, I'm starting to think it might actually be the summer house.
The garden is the biggest clue, of course, but there's realistically a few places that can have a garden. The house of Holly and her family is the other top candidate (she lives outside of town, and we know she'll have a bunch of scenes this chapter). Apart from that it could also be either Ian's or Lena's parents' house. But when Lena's been at her parents' house before, the story's just skipped it (even when it was used as a cliffhanger), so realistically I doubt we'll see those locations in the immediate future. Molly and Ed's place could've been an alternative, but there's nothing indicating they'll play a bigger role anytime soon, and I'm not sure if they live outside of town—or if the meager income from the café would've allowed them to buy a house with a garden. None of the younger cast would've afforded a house of their own, or furnished it like that.
The books obviously point to Holly, especially since they're lying all over the room. But if it was Holly's place, I think it would've made more sense to add her bedroom than the living room (though I made the same argument when people thought the chapter 10 sneak peek was Alison's home, and it turned out I was wrong). That small, half full bookshelf doesn't exactly scream "bibliophile" either. Which is an argument against the final candidate as well, Minerva (who I admit I had forgotten when I started writing this post). I also assume her house will look more classy than this—it doesn't really fit with her facade.
To me it looks more like the typical summer house bookshelf, half full and with a couple of dozens slightly random books. The largest picture on the wall also seems to be of a pier with a boat. Obviously you can have a picture like that even if you live far away from any lake or sea, but it makes more sense to add it if you're curating the backdrop for a summer house than any other of the potential locations.
And the final argument: In the first post about the Prologue, Eva wrote that one of the reasons for it was to "set up what's coming for the next chapter". That could point to a lot of different things—and doesn't even have to be anything very specific—but the summer house vacation was indeed the one major new addition to the storyline that wasn't in any way introduced before the Prologue.
The garden is the biggest clue, of course, but there's realistically a few places that can have a garden. The house of Holly and her family is the other top candidate (she lives outside of town, and we know she'll have a bunch of scenes this chapter). Apart from that it could also be either Ian's or Lena's parents' house. But when Lena's been at her parents' house before, the story's just skipped it (even when it was used as a cliffhanger), so realistically I doubt we'll see those locations in the immediate future. Molly and Ed's place could've been an alternative, but there's nothing indicating they'll play a bigger role anytime soon, and I'm not sure if they live outside of town—or if the meager income from the café would've allowed them to buy a house with a garden. None of the younger cast would've afforded a house of their own, or furnished it like that.
The books obviously point to Holly, especially since they're lying all over the room. But if it was Holly's place, I think it would've made more sense to add her bedroom than the living room (though I made the same argument when people thought the chapter 10 sneak peek was Alison's home, and it turned out I was wrong). That small, half full bookshelf doesn't exactly scream "bibliophile" either. Which is an argument against the final candidate as well, Minerva (who I admit I had forgotten when I started writing this post). I also assume her house will look more classy than this—it doesn't really fit with her facade.
To me it looks more like the typical summer house bookshelf, half full and with a couple of dozens slightly random books. The largest picture on the wall also seems to be of a pier with a boat. Obviously you can have a picture like that even if you live far away from any lake or sea, but it makes more sense to add it if you're curating the backdrop for a summer house than any other of the potential locations.
And the final argument: In the first post about the Prologue, Eva wrote that one of the reasons for it was to "set up what's coming for the next chapter". That could point to a lot of different things—and doesn't even have to be anything very specific—but the summer house vacation was indeed the one major new addition to the storyline that wasn't in any way introduced before the Prologue.
