07/09/2026
Extremely excited to announce that we’ll be hosting publishing powerhouse Alison Barrow at our November retreat this year!
All our guests will receive advance reader copies of ‘When Everything Was Burning’ before the book is published next June. I think there will be some fascinating echoes between the book and the HOT summer we’ve just experienced.
Saturday will be spent exploring the town of Malton, with Alison joining us that evening to talk about her book, followed by a visit to the local pub.
We now have just 3 rooms left! DM me for the booking link.
BOOK TEASER:
In the blazing summer of 1976, when Britain is gripped by drought, fire and a strange airless heat, the Robinson family are living under pressures of their own.
Then, on a Sunday in June, a terrible moment changes the course of all their lives.
What follows is a story of love, secrecy and survival. As the years unfold, a mother and her children, their neighbours and lovers, must live in the aftermath of that day, each carrying their own version of what happened.
Sweeping yet intimate, richly atmospheric and deeply humane, this is a novel about what lies hidden in ordinary lives: about damage and inheritance, grief and desire, and the fragile bonds which people remain tethered to one another.
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