Arthur Ransome's incomplete children's novel 'Coots in the North' was usurped by the publication of Great Northern?, though chronologically it would have been set at an earlier date. The story starts in the second week of August 1932 in the Norfolk Broads but continues in the Lake District after the Death and Glories hitch a ride aboard a boat being delivered to the Lake in the North. Ransome abandoned it when he could not make progress with the story.