A new chapter in my life

A ‘book camp’ gave Claire Droney the much-needed push to finally get her novel idea off the ground and onto a page.

ON a muddy walk through the Berkshire countryside, Book Camp’s pink-wellied Cesca Major tells me that Kate Middleton attended her boarding school, and that Coldplay’s Chris Martin is her cousin.

It’s afternoon break. I’ve had a two-hour morning session with women’s fiction author, Rowan Coleman, written 1,000 words in an hour-long ‘word race’, read from a book on plotting, and begun planning my novel.