The Retreat

<p><em style=background-color: initial; color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>PART OF THE NORTHERN WEIRD PROJECT</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Richard's sister Julie returns home from a mysterious wellness facility in remote Cumbria in 1994. He's convinced that this place was a cult and was the cause of his sister's eventual suicide. Finally after years as an unaccomplished academic he decides to investigate the disturbing accusations against the Hartman Retreat Centre. Then he meets Lucy a young woman whose story is eerily similar to his sister's decades before. Richard is determined to unearth what's really been happening at the Hartman Retreat Centre but more importantly who is Charles Hartman the celebrated healer who casts a powerful hold over all who come to the retreat.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Told through letters interviews and found texts lovers of Fairlcough's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: initial>Bear Season</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> will be swept up in a sinister world of wellness gurus and mystery.</span></p>