As a product of suburbia, I adore this. My Christmas novel is set in exactly the kind of liminal location you describe, where the local petrol station is now a Lidl, neighbouring streets are connected to each other by overgrown concrete footpaths and most of the pubs have been converted into flats with insufficient parking.
As a product of suburbia, I adore this. My Christmas novel is set in exactly the kind of liminal location you describe, where the local petrol station is now a Lidl, neighbouring streets are connected to each other by overgrown concrete footpaths and most of the pubs have been converted into flats with insufficient parking.