Hello and welcome to Story Time for Grownups. I'm Faith Moore, and this season we're reading

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Each episode, I'll read a few chapters from the book,

pausing from time to time to give brief explanations, so it's easier to follow along. It's like an

audiobook with built-in notes.

So brew a pot of tea, find a cozy chair, and settle in.

It's good time. I don't know if you

did. I hope you did. I had a great time and it really, it was really touching to me actually to be

able to hear the voices of you guys, the people that I have been emailing with all of this time

back and forth. So to get to meet some of you that way was just really a joy. So thank you to those

of you who came and for being there. So thank you to those of you

who came and for being there. And thank you to all of you who have signed up to be a part of

the drawing room, our online community. I love popping in there from time to time and saying hello,

and I love that you guys are starting to talk to each other and to talk about these books and

other books and just life in general. It's lovely. I hope that it can be a place where we can all gather for a long time to come. So thank you

for being there. If you're interested in joining the drawing room, our online community,

and you haven't done it yet. There is a link in the show notes to scroll down and click on it.

Clicking on it doesn't mean that you have to do anything. It just gives you a little bit more information. So I do recommend that you check that out if you're

interested. It's just a way that we can all chat together in a different way and that you guys

can chat to each other because as I'm always saying, I get to hear from you guys all the time,

but you guys don't get to talk to each other. So that's just a way for you guys to get to talk to each other.

And also sometimes me, I will let you know the date of the next tea time soon. As I say,

it's going to be sometime at the end of February. I haven't quite worked out the date yet.

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