Novelist Sebastian Faulks’ guide to Cambridge

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When I first went to Cambridge for an interview, aged 17, I was too shy to ask anyone where “my” college was. An hour later, having toured the city, I was back at the railway station. Somehow I found Emmanuel and was despatched by a porter to a room that smelled of old gas fires. 

Ten months later, I arrived, now the owner of an academic award in English but still…