Join us and other writers in a secluded valley in mid Devon for tutored courses and independent retreats. With yoga, walking, super healthy food, wood-fired sauna and cold plunge.

A place to connect with your natural environment, your body, with others, and with your creativity.

A place to be.

A terrific novel….a brilliant and literal dissection of a marriage – The Times.

A compulsively readable tale exploring the darkest desires of humanity and the discontent simmering beneath seemingly serene surfaces.’- The Observer

How extraordinary is the mind of the writer. Natalie Young has created a near-Gothic story of obsession and desire, set against the background of a sinister chateau, in both postwar and contemporary France. Definitely not for the faint-hearted... A true tour de force. --Mavis Cheek

Ensnares the reader in an eerie web of elusive family secrets in an atmospheric French village --The Times