Reading Retreats With Living Architecture

A perfect combination of great books and great architecture.

 

Holidays promise us the time and space to catch up on reading, but the reality is that we often return home a little poorer and yet not much better-read than when we left.

 

The School of Life is now offering a new kind of holiday, a Reading Retreat, in which we invite you to stay in some of the most beautiful contemporary houses in the UK and at the same time to read a specially-curated, realistically-sized selection of relevant and useful books.

 

A Reading Retreat begins with a session (by phone or email) with one of our bibliotherapists. These experts will carefully consider your reading habits, your current ambitions, desires and stage of life – and then draw up a reading prescription for you, directing you to a highly inspirational, provocative and eye-opening set of books (be they novels, poems, essays or biographies) to read while you are away.

 

Armed with your reading prescription, you can then take off on holiday to a selection of five extraordinary houses secured exclusively by The School of Life from a new organisation called Living Architecture and built by some of the world's greatest architects on sites in Devon, Kent, Norfolk and Suffolk. In these tranquil beautiful houses (all additionally armed with their own intelligent libraries), you will be able to make your way through your list of books in surroundings utterly congenial to rest and reflection.

 

For more information on The School of Life's unique new Reading Retreats, please email info@theschooloflife.com