A Weekend of Pure Book Bliss

Retreating on the West Wales coast

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Dear Friend

How are you? I hope this essay finds you in good spirits? I still feel a warm glow as I reminisce over one of my most relaxing retreats this year - resting and reading all weekend, in my favourite beach house with a group of likeminded women.

I still can’t believe it happened.

Six of us. One gorgeous beach house. A whole weekend dedicated to the simple, radical act of reading.

As some of you will know the beach house, my happy place, is tucked into this perfect little cover along the West Wales coastline. You know those places that make you stop mid-sentence because the view just hits you? That was this. Sea stretching endlessly, cliffs hugging as close, and…