Book signing at the Crown in Northill a roaring success!

The book signing at the Crown in Northill was a roaring success. My parents were hard at work beforehand pinning up posters in supermarkets, libraries and telegraph poles and it clearly worked as half the village turned up. I am acquiring rather a taste for bubbles, this time the lovely landlady Linda Blois gave me a bottle on the house. Well, I do find it helps my signature… my handwriting is appalling and I kept having to apologise to people for the illiterate scrawl defacing their brand-new copies. After the signing, myself and my parents Anna and Neil and three of my friends who made the trip from London with me – Helen Rance (the inspiration for the name of DI Rance in Country Pursuits!), Jez and Emma – had dinner in the restaurant. Although I hasten to add that although Hels is a police officer (murder squad), she isn’t at all like the grumpy, brow-beaten Kevin Rance. Afterwards, it was back to Carnegie HQ, where I took the guys to meet mum’s horses Shadow and Storm. Despite Jez claiming he was practically “brought up in a riding school,” he kept a fair distance – apart from throwing a Polo over Shadow’s stable door while shrieking with fear. His trepidation was understandable – Shadow is a whole twelve hands tall after all. She’s also 39! That little lady is like the Queen Mother of the equestrian world, I may have to buy her a super-sized handbag to complete the look. We all finished off in the garden at midnight drinking mum’s nuclear-strength brandy and gingers. That finished me off – I am still recovering.

Photos coming soon!

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1. Sandra Williams Says:
   August 25th, 2008 at 2:13 pm

   So pleased the Williams clan could be there to support Jo’s local book signing. The dedications were outrageous fun: so typically Jo. The book is proving to be a great read, full of unexpected twists and turns, a real page turner.

   Every success with the next volume.

   From “one hot chick”