“He’s sort of part of the DNA of the book and he’s threaded through it a great deal,” he said.
“My relationship with him was so…I would say passionate, in as much as we had a creative meeting of minds which was explosive, and that of course can lead to frictions and can lead to difficulties.”
Elton said it was a “complicated” relationship.
“It was a very close friendship and a very fractured working relationship,” he said.
“As it broke away, there was a lot of pain there as well.
“The book actually opens at his funeral because that was the first really true major tragic loss of my life.”