Getting back to normal now after a superb week at Lumb Bank, one of the centres belonging to the Arvon Foundation.  The course was for novelists with a work in progress and was tutored by Maggie Gee and Adam Foulds.  Both tutors were excellent,  offering insightful comments and running tutorials and workshops throughout the week. 
Part of what made for such a useful and educational week was the company.  As well as such good tutors the fifteen attendees were a wide ranging group,  covering all ages,  genres and writing styles. In my opinion,  maybe not worth very much but who knows,  there were a couple of writers there who will be very successful in the near future.  I hope I’m right,  I’ll be keeping an eye out for them anyway.