Deciding to co-write with another author who lives some distance away would have been enough to put a lot of writers off collaborating, even if the benefits of the internet make it so much easier today. But deciding to write with another author who is well-known, award-winning, and writes in a different genre to one’s own, well, that is quite another matter. Yet that is what Christina Jones and I have done – we’ve written a book which is certainly not my usual genre of crime/thriller and in fact, it is not completely in her usual genre – Bucolic Frolics – either.

Only One Woman is a work of fiction but both Christina and I have a mutual – shared – history, and with our combined experiences and knowledge of the music scene, love of fashion and all things sixties, we always said that one day we’d write a book…