Hello! Lauren the publicist here, I am crashing the DFB blog to add some photos and videos from The Mistress of the Storm launch.

It was a fantastic location and a beautiful day, a hair-whipping, skirt-blowing day (I un-glamorously had to chase my plastic fork and bits of rocket salad as they flew down the promenade at lunchtime…) The ice-cream coloured beach huts were idyllic, I was very envious of the owners sitting outside on their deck chairs.

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The Sailors Reading Room was perfect, but i have to say the cakes and scones stole the show each perched on pretty little cake stands and surrounded by pink bubbles. Hannah very kindly agreed to be filmed, to record these objects of beauty, here she is with cake-cam:

cake cam

Melanie also did a lovely piece explaining the significance of the launch location:

Mel

After a too-short two hours, i was whisked back to the train station by a very friendly cabby who spent the entire journey telling me what he’d do if he was made Prime Minister tomorrow. Don’t ask.