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Originally Posted by HarryT
One example: near the start of the book, Claire, the main character, goes into a shop in London in 1945, a few months after the end of WWII, and comments how wonderful it is that all the shelves are fully stocked again after the austerity of the war. There were no fully stocked shops in London in late 1945 - rationing of pretty much everything was actually worse after the war than during it, and continued until 1953.
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Funnily enough, this example of author error is mentioned over and over in many reviews. It did say that in the original publication but has been edited in later editions/ebooks. The book now begins in 1946, it always was in Inverness and the goods on the shelves are now described as 'sparse'.
But that is not (IMHO) a 'glaring' historical error; that's a minor mistake like describing stovies as dumplings. A glaring error to me would be a documented historical event being changed to a different time and place to suit a plot point.