One of the key locations in Netflix thriller Stay Close, which is based on the novel by Harlan Coben, is a giant head sculpture. It is amazing to look at and acts as a meeting point in several key scenes in the series.
It is known as The Dream Head but is officially titled ‘Dream’ and is by the artist Jaume Plensa. The sculpture shows the head of a young sleeping girl. It was commissioned by St Helens Council and a group of ex-miners and can found on the former site of Sutton Manor Colliery at Sutton Manor Woods, St Helens in Merseyside. It is even visible around junction seven on the M62.
In Harlen Coben’s source novel there is a sculpture called Lucy the Elephant which fulfilled the same function.
The series was filmed all over Manchester and Merseyside especially Didsbury, Blackpool, Formby and Morecambe Bay. The original setting for the book was Atlantic City, New Jersey. Sarah Green’s house was in Didsbury but the basement of the house was on the site of an old Liberal club in Whalley Range.
Two other key locations throughout the series are the woods – these were filmed in the grounds of a privately owned farm in Chorley, complete with ruins. And The Viper nightclub was a former nightclub in Formby.
