Frances Edmonds
In 1986, when a publisher and board director at William Heinemann, I
commissioned Frances Edmonds to write three books: Another Bloody Tour, Cricket
XXX Cricket and Members Only. They sold and sold and sold and the first two
topped both the hard and soft back charts for weeks.
Just before Christmas, I bumped into her at a Carole Stone party. She was coming
in as I was going out. In the intervening years, we have met maybe three maybe
four times and we had been...