Out of place

I have been reading a novel by Elizabeth George, called "What Came Before He Shot Her". It is set in London among poor mixed-race teenagers.

I am finding it difficult to keep reading because of the number of errors she makes in writing about a British situation with American assumptions. As an example, she refers to someone stamping down on an emergency brake, where most cars in Britain would have a hand-brake. In another scene, she has a street person drinking out of a bottle contained in a brown paper bag. All the examples I could quote are fairly minor, but I find them jarring.

I was trying to think of a word to describe this: a sort of geographical equivalent of anachronism. Any ideas?

Fran
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