According to a press release from the book’s US publisher, Run, Rose, Run is set in Nashville, and follows the story of a young woman who has travelled to the city to “pursue her music-making dreams”.

“The source of her heart-wrenching songs is a brutal secret she has done everything to hide,” the official synopsis reads. “But the past she has fled is reaching out to control her future – even if it means destroying everything she has worked for.”

Speaking about the experience of working on the novel alongside Parton, Patterson said it had been “an honour – and a hell of a lot of fun” to work with the star, whom he has “long admired for her music, her storytelling, and her enormous generosity.”

Run, Rose, Run: Dolly Parton publishing her first novel is the news we didn’t know we needed