ANNA

After a lifetime of wading through the crap at the frontline in every major news story across the world, former daily tabloid journalist Anna chucked the day job to write novels. Two are out there so far. She pulls no punches in her column in the Sunday Mirror – you can catch it on the Sunday Mirror website – so she’s been scored off more Christmas lists than she’s had hot dinners.

She and Franco met when they worked together in Seville when Anna was covering Celtic in the UEFA Cup Final. She claims, he’s been bossing her around ever since!  She’s not known for her patience, and neither is Franco. So as they face the gruelling trip, joined at the hip for a month in a small car, she’s learning the Spanish for ‘Stop it. You’re strangling me.’

Anna says Franco’s worst trait is constantly interrupting her, and never letting her get her own way.