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Writer’s retreat

WRITING LIFE

Want to just hide from the real world and write? Us too.

We may be legally restricted from adventuring far afield at the moment, but that doesn’t stop us writers dreaming of the day when we can. With closed international borders and strict lockdown orders, we’d need to master Harry Potter’s art of apparating to even pop to the next county. And with the government’s prediction that we’ll be through the worst by spring (I’m optimistically hoping for World Book Day on 4 March), let’s celebrate by booking one of

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