What a star! Prue arrived looking wonderful, sat down in the middle of the people who had gathered early to get good seats and started to chat to them. She was friendly and charming and, once she started to talk about her writing career, hilarious about the various scrapes her recipe-writing days had led her into. One story involved marmalade, dentures and the bomb disposal squad - I leave you to imagine the link. She is a brilliant speaker and quite inspirational for women. I began to think she should be somehow bottled and sent into every school in the country as an example to girls of what they could achieve with their lives. She spoke passionately about why she had written about older women and we heard how her publishers had tried to persuade her that she couldn't write about women over 50 because no one would be interested. Thank goodness she didn't listen to them. If you ever get the chance to hear her speak, take it. My neighbour has resumed her Tai Chi classes since Monday.
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