Enligt författarens officiella webbplats är Crescent Moon Bay i öster Australiens kust på ungefär samma plats som Byron Bay, New South Wales .
Where better to start your voyage than Crescent Moon Bay on the East Coast of Australia? Here’s where Connor and Grace Tempest spent the first thirteen years of their lives, living with their dad, Dexter Tempest, the town’s lighthouse keeper.
As some of you may have guessed, I was inspired by the Australian coastal town of Byron Bay and the lighthouse at Cape Byron, which marks the most easterly point of the continent.
I should say though (especially to any Australians reading this!) that any resemblance to Byron Bay begins and ends with the topography! Byron Bay is a pretty idyllic spot, but Crescent Moon Bay is a dead-end town – the kind of place you wouldn’t want to linger any longer than you had to…