She was just as lovely and charming in person as she comes across through her witty tweets. As her new novel, Shall We Dance, is set in a vintage store, she bought along some of her vintage finds for show and tell and spoke about vintage friendships - and making an effort to preserve relationships and communication with old friends - something I've written about and thought about a lot myself. It saddens me to no end when I lose touch with people and I hate that maintaining friendships is sometimes such a chore and as hard as you might, people slip away...
Maggie is one of a handful of people who manages to get me out of bed early on a Saturday morning (sometimes it's B who's the one getting up as I beg him to go to the shops and buy me the paper so I can read Maggie's column - poor guy). Her column is something I always manage to relate to. It's been published for over 10 years and I hope it never ends! Maggie's husband is Serbian, and she tells me he and their daughter are currently in Belgrade, the most vibrant underrated city in Europe. Wish I could be there too....
And to top off a great evening, I ran into Semi Expat and got to meet Carly and Sophie. Hooray for blogging friends.
