An afternoon at Kensington Roof Gardens with celebrity guest  HRH Camilla celebrating Bookstart with brilliant authors like Malorie Blackman,  publishers, The Book People – Seni Glaister – and the entire  Booktrust team including Marian Keen Downs of The Letterbox Club.

But my day was made up by meeting sister   Francesca Beard.  I was there with my dearest friend the incomparable original, stylish and connected (to what matters) Lisa Dwan.

I had no idea HRH was going to be there. I hadn’t looked properly at the RSVP.  Here’s to another twenty years of Book Start and The Book Trust.