Juliet signing a copy for Rebecca Hawkins, sculptor of Lai Dai Han Mother and Child statue in St James’s Gardens.
Over 60 people filled the remarkable Fleet Street Church of St Dunstan in the West for the official launch of London’s Statues of Women - chosen by the author because it hosts, in its statue of Elizabeth I to the right of the entrance, the oldest statue of a named woman anywhere in the capital. A number of sculptors whose works appear in the book came along, including Mary Millner (Ada Lovelace), Rebecca Hawkins (Lai Dai Han), Catherine Anne Laugel (young Victoria) and Kevin Atherton (Joy Battick, twice). Joy herself also came, along with her daughter. We sold, and Juliet signed, every copy of the stock of books we brought.