Explore the real-world places that appear in Verity by Colleen Hoover. Each location on the map shows what happens there in the novel, the real history of the place, and what's there today. Featured locations include Crawford Family Home, New York Publishing District, The Study, Jeremy Crawford's Publishing Office, Verity's Hospital Room and 10 more.
Rural Vermont estate — Verity's twisted sanctuary
The sprawling Crawford family home in rural Vermont is where Lowen moves to research Verity's unfinished autobiography. It's a character itself — gothic, isolated, and suffused with the malevolent presence of Verity Crawford, who lies in a vegetative state upstairs after her car accident. Lowen discovers Verity's hidden manuscript in the study, a confessional account of her obsessions, manipulations, and cruelty. Every room holds secrets: the kitchen where Verity watched her daughter, the master bedroom where her husband Jeremy tried to maintain order, the study where dark truths were written.
Rural Vermont estates like this have existed since the 1800s, representing New England's literary tradition of isolation and introspection. Many large homes were built by wealthy families seeking privacy and space.
The exact location is fictional, but represents the real rural Vermont countryside that still exists as a retreat for writers and artists seeking solitude and inspiration.
Midtown Manhattan — Lowen's literary world
Lowen's home base as a ghostwriter and author-for-hire in New York City. She receives the lucrative Crawford assignment through her agent, a lifeline that allows her to escape her struggling writing career. The publishing industry backdrop establishes Lowen as desperate but talented, willing to compromise her integrity for financial survival. This is where her life intersects with the Crawford family's world, before she escapes to Vermont.
Midtown Manhattan has been the heart of American publishing since the early 20th century, with major publishing houses headquartered around Fifth Avenue and the surrounding blocks. The industry has remained concentrated in this area for over a century.
Midtown remains the publishing capital of the United States, though many houses have shifted offices. The area is accessible for literary walking tours and bookstore visits.
Visit: Strand Bookstore (landmark)
Crawford Home — Where secrets are revealed
The heart of the novel's mystery. Lowen discovers Verity's handwritten manuscript hidden in a locked desk drawer — a devastating, confessional account of Verity's true nature. The manuscript reveals Verity's obsessive love for her husband Jeremy, her calculated manipulation of those around her, and her cruel indifference masked by maternal performance. Lowen reads late into the night, becoming entranced and horrified by Verity's admissions. This room becomes the pressure point where Lowen must decide whether to reveal Verity's true self or protect the family's lie.
Studies and libraries in grand homes served as private sanctuaries for writers and intellectuals, designed as spaces for reflection and documentation of private thoughts.
The fictional study represents the real tradition of private studies in historic New England estates, which often contained valuable manuscripts and personal papers.
Upper East Side, Manhattan — The successful author
Jeremy Crawford, Verity's husband and a bestselling author himself, maintains an office in Manhattan where he conducts business meetings and publishing affairs. Lowen encounters Jeremy in the literary circles of New York, admiring his work before becoming consumed with him after reading Verity's manuscript. The office represents Jeremy's public persona — a successful, sympathetic widower devoted to his career and children — which contrasts sharply with the man Verity describes in her confessions.
The Upper East Side has been home to Manhattan's literary and publishing elite since the early 20th century, with many authors maintaining private offices and meeting spaces in the neighborhood.
The Upper East Side remains an exclusive neighborhood with numerous literary landmarks, bookstores, and publisher offices.
Visit: The Morgan Library & Museum (museum)
Vermont Medical Facility — The silent witness
Verity lies in a comatose state in a Vermont hospital, unable to speak or move after her car accident. Lowen visits her, speaking to the woman whose manuscript she's read, confronting the contradiction between the written confessions and the broken body before her. The hospital represents the stasis of the novel's central mystery — Verity is simultaneously the narrator of her own damnation and a helpless victim. Lowen never knows if Verity can hear her, understand her, or if the manuscript is truth or fiction.
Vermont has several major medical centers that have served rural communities since the mid-20th century, providing care for accident victims and chronic conditions.
Modern Vermont hospitals continue to serve the region with advanced medical care and long-term patient facilities.
Vermont Estate — Theater of family secrets
The family gathering space where Jeremy, his children Chastin and Colby, and their nanny Harper spend their days. This room becomes the stage for Lowen's observations of family dynamics after reading Verity's manuscript. What appeared to be a grieving father's careful parenting is shadowed by Verity's written accounts of cruelty toward her children. The living room represents the facade of the Crawford family's wholesomeness, contrasted against the private darkness Verity documented.
Formal living rooms in large estates served as gathering spaces and representations of family identity, decorated to project stability and wealth.
The fictional living room represents the real architectural tradition of formal family spaces in New England estates.
Brooklyn, New York — Refuge and desperation
Lowen's small Brooklyn apartment where she struggles with her writing career before accepting the Crawford ghostwriting job. She lives with her boyfriend Judson, a relationship that crumbles as Lowen becomes emotionally entangled with Jeremy Crawford. Her apartment represents her ordinary life before the manuscript pulls her into the Crawfords' darkness. She returns here after Vermont, forever changed by what she's read and experienced.
Brooklyn has been home to struggling artists and writers since the late 20th century, offering affordable rent and creative community for New York's literary underground.
Brooklyn remains a vibrant neighborhood with numerous bookstores, literary venues, and artist residences.
Visit: Housing Works Bookstore Cafe (landmark)
Crawford Home — Verity's historical archive
The attic of the Crawford home contains remnants of Verity's past, storage of family memories, and the physical evidence of years lived. Lowen explores this space seeking context for Verity's confessions, finding photographs, journals, and artifacts that may corroborate or contradict the manuscript. The attic represents the buried history of the family, literally above and hidden, containing truths that Lowen must excavate.
Attics in historic estates served as storage for family records, trunks, and artifacts, often becoming repositories of forgotten history and personal documentation.
Historic home attics today are often preserved or converted into living spaces, sometimes with archives of family papers donated to libraries.
Vermont lakeside property — Verity's controlled domain
The Crawford family's lakeside retreat where they spend summers. Verity manipulated every detail of this property to control her environment and her family's experiences. In her manuscript, she describes orchestrating moments here with calculated precision. The lake and surrounding woods represent both idyllic escape and Verity's obsessive sphere of influence, where she could isolate her family and maintain absolute authority over their lives and perceptions.
Vermont's lakes have been vacation destinations for New England families since the 19th century, with private estates and resorts dotting the shoreline.
Vermont lakes remain popular recreational destinations with public and private access points, parks, and seasonal resorts.
Visit: Lake Champlain Public Access Area (park)
Strafford or Thetford area — Lowen's sanctuary
Lowen escapes to the local library as refuge from the intensity of living in the Crawford home. Here she researches Verity Crawford, seeking information about the woman whose manuscript has consumed her. The library represents Lowen's attempt to find truth through conventional means, to verify Verity's claims through public records and news archives. It's where she tries to rationalize and contextualize the darkness she's read.
Vermont's public libraries have served as community centers and information repositories since the 19th century, with many towns maintaining small libraries as gathering places.
Vermont libraries continue to serve as public access points for research, reading, and community events, welcoming visitors and researchers.
Visit: Strafford Free Library (library)
Crawford Estate — Intimacy and control
The master bedroom where Jeremy and Verity's relationship unfolded in all its complexity. Verity's manuscript reveals the twisted intimacy between them — her obsessive love masked as possession, her calculated seduction and manipulation. After Verity's accident, this room becomes Jeremy's private sanctuary. Lowen's awareness of what happened in this space, as detailed in the manuscript, creates profound tension in her developing relationship with Jeremy.
Master bedrooms in grand estates reflected the private life and status of the family's principal occupants, designed as intimate retreats.
Historic home bedrooms are often preserved as part of estate tours or converted to guest accommodations.
Rural roadway — The accident site
The rural Vermont highway where Verity's car accident occurred, leaving her in a comatose state. The accident is the inciting incident of the novel — the event that forces Jeremy to hire Lowen to finish Verity's manuscript, the circumstance that allows Lowen access to the dark secrets hidden in the house. The road represents the thin line between Verity's controlled life and chaos, the moment when her carefully constructed reality shattered, leaving only her manuscript as testament.
Vermont Route 100 is a legendary scenic byway running through central Vermont, known for its winding roads through dense forests and rural communities.
Route 100 remains a popular drive through Vermont's Green Mountains, with pullouts, hiking trails, and scenic views accessible to the public.
Visit: Vermont Route 100 Scenic Byway (landmark)
Crawford Home — Verity's complex legacy
The shared bedroom of Chastin and Colby, Verity and Jeremy's children. Verity's manuscript contains disturbing accounts of her relationship with her children — her emotional distance masked by performative motherhood, her calculation of their needs and emotions. Lowen observes the children navigating their lives without their mother, her awareness of Verity's confessed cruelty casting a shadow over every interaction. The bedroom represents the innocence that Verity's confessions threaten to contaminate.
Children's bedrooms in large estates were often designed to separate children from adult spaces, reflecting Victorian and early modern concepts of childhood.
Historic home children's bedrooms are sometimes preserved to show period-appropriate furnishings and domestic life.
Hospital basement — Verity's hidden truth
Where hospital records documenting Colby's injuries and medical history are stored, containing evidence of the pattern Verity describes in her manuscript. Lowen seeks these records to verify Verity's claims about her treatment of her children, finding documentation that corroborates the written confessions. This institutional space becomes crucial to Lowen's investigation, representing the objective evidence that exists beyond Verity's subjective narrative.
Hospital record departments have maintained confidential medical files since the modern medical system developed in the 20th century, with strict protocols for documentation and storage.
Modern hospitals maintain secure record systems with restricted access, though authorized individuals can request medical documentation through proper channels.
Crawford Estate — Secrets and escape
The garage where Verity's damaged car is stored after her accident. It represents the physical evidence of the crash that catalyzes the entire plot. Lowen confronts the reality of Verity's accident in this space, seeing the wreckage that left a woman of such dark intensity reduced to silence. The garage holds the literal and metaphorical weight of unanswered questions — was the accident truly accidental, or the culmination of Verity's own chaos?
Detached garages in rural estates became common in the early-to-mid 20th century as automobile ownership became standard for wealthy families.
Historic estate garages are sometimes preserved as storage or converted to guest houses or artist studios.
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