Heather Mills to write a novel

Heather Mills (pictured), the ex-wife of Sir Paul McCartney, has been vilified for various reasons, not least her inability to understand the difference between fantasy and fact. But perhaps this might help her in her latest venture: she has, according to a report in the Daily Mail, begun work on a novel about - wait for it - a model and campaigner who falls in love with a world famous rock star. It appears that she is using the book to get around a gagging order imposed as part of her £24.3m divorce settlement, which stipulated she could not make public any details of her relationship with the former Beatle.

Mills, who has made no secret of her desire to give her side of the story, is hawking the book idea around publishing houses and seeking an advance of some £1m to complete it. A source close to Mills said: "She will be marketing the book as a work of fiction. It's a rags-to-riches tale taking in her tough childhood, how she struggled to make it as a model and then how this famous rock star met her at an awards ceremony and how they fell in love."

Mills is also understood to have included a character not unlike Sir Paul's divorce lawyer, Fiona Shackleton. Mills famously tipped a glass of water over Shackleton's head on the last day of the divorce hearing. Adds the source: "There is a hard-nosed professional woman who is part of the rock star's team who sides against the model and tries to make her life difficult."

Stella McCartney, Paul's fashion designer daughter, another woman who crossed Mills, looks set to make a thinly veiled appearance too. "The rock star's first wife had passed away and his children can never get over that fact, so they gang up against the model, who they see as money-grabbing and an opportunist." We have been warned.