Wow. Sitting on the sofa this morning suffering only slightly from an over indulgence of champagne and star struckedness (not a word but describes my state last night).
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| Katherine Webb's and Julia Silk's fabulous shoes. |
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| This is Nina Douglas' picture |
First I only took one photo...I was too busy people watching. There were around a thousand people mixing around the dinosaur skeleton in the Natural History Museum. By luck I found my agent,
Carole Blake, who knew everyone and was even mentioned in the speech by
Ian Rankin. He was lovely when I met latter and chatted about how he never shows anyone his first drafts because they are terrible and filled with things...go and get some lunch...I can't remember this character's name. I was really good to know that the gods write sh*tty first drafts too.
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| Julia Silk took this photo of Essie Fox and me |
I spied
Julian Fellows in the crowd. Spoke with
Francesca Simon about her visit to the
Emirates Airlines Festival of Literature last year and
Anthony Horowitz joined in the conversation saying what a great festival it is. I caught up with friends..
.Essie Fox, Kate Harrison, Veronica Henry, Ruth Saberton, Jean Fullerton, Nina Douglas, Erica James, Shelley Harris, Kate Mosse, Liz Thompson and
JW Ironmonger.
I met more agents last night than I knew existed...
It was an amazing evening...after an amazing afternoon which was a private screening of
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. Between the author party and the screening I wondered if I had dropped into someone else's life....
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| Veronica Henry, Anne Seba and Paul Torday |
The private cinema was straight out of a film set with red leather seats and a screen bigger than the one in the Flroa Cinema in Helston....and it was all for me, well, me and about twenty other people. I hadn't read the book so didn't know what to expect (DH had read the book and he loved it).
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is now top on my TBR.
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| Erica James and Paul Torday |
Without ruining the film...it was delightful and I loved it. I couldn't imagine how
Ewan McGregor could play a geek but it does so beautifully and believably.
Emily Blunt is perfect. I found myself laughing through most of the it. It's a film that lifted me like the
The Kings Speech did...it just has that wonderful feel good factor. Joy is the word that comes to mind.
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| Paul Torday, Anne Sebba and moi (not sure who is the man in the background) |
I was a bit better taking pictures of the screening...What was the last film that made you smile?
