Riseholme (fictional village) in "Lucia in London" (1927), in which Lucia launched herself on London society; "Mapp and Lucia" (1931), in which, following Peppino's death, both Lucia and Georgie (who entered into a companionable marriage in "Lucia's Progress", 1935), took holiday lets in the Sussex town of Tilling (based on Rye) where, at the end of the summer of 1930, they decided to settle. At Tilling Lucia unveiled her celebrated dish, Lobster "à la Riseholme". Lucia and Georgie visited Riseholme again in "Trouble for Lucia" (1939) where they stayed at the home of the operatic "prima donna" Olga Bracely and Lucia called on
La Vie Petit, Max Armanet and Jean-Pierre Denis . Since 1945, the magazine was published by "le groupe de presse La Vie catholique", which in 2003 became a part of the larger Groupe La Vie-Le Monde. In 2001, "La Vie" created a charitable association which as of 2006 had around three thousand members, based in fifty-odd regional centres across France, called "Les Amis de La Vie" ("Friends of La Vie"). This organisation gave deeper meaning to the magazine's tagline, "a paper written with its readers", by organising meetings, debates, and summer programmes. The publication is independent of the Catholic hierarchy. Because the