The Two of Us

Description

Sheila Hancock's moving and compelling memoir of her marriage to John Thaw When John Thaw, star of The Sweeney and Inspector Morse, died from cancer in 2002, a nation lost one of its finest actors and Sheila Hancock lost a beloved husband. In this unique double biography she chronicles their lives – personal and professional, together and apart. John Thaw was born in Manchester, the son of a lorry driver. When he arrived at RADA on a scholarship he felt an outsider. In fact his timing was perfect: it was the sixties and television was beginning to make its mark. With his roles in Z-Cars and The Sweeney, fame came quickly. But it was John's role as Morse that made him an icon. In 1974 he married Sheila Hancock, with whom he shared a working-class background and a RADA education. Sheila was already the star of the TV series The Rag Trade and went on to become the first woman artistic director at the RSC. Theirs was a sometimes turbulent, always passionate relationship, and in this remarkable book Sheila describes their love – weathering overwork and the pressures of celebrity, drink and cancer – with honesty and piercing intelligence, and evokes two lives lived to the utmost.

Description

When John Thaw, star of "The Sweeney" and "Inspector Morse", died from cancer, a nation lost one of its finest actors and Sheila Hancock lost a beloved husband. This biography chronicles their lives - personal and professional, together and apart. It describes their love - weathering overwork and the pressures of celebrity, drink and cancer.

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Other Editions

• The Two of UsHardcoverBloomsbury Publishing PLC2004-10-04
• The Two of UsPaperbackBloomsbury Publishing PLC2004-10-04
• The Two of UsPaperbackBloomsbury Publishing PLC2005-06-06
• The Two of UsAudio CDBloomsbury Publishing PLC2005-06-06
• The Two of UsAudio CassetteBloomsbury2005-06-06
• The Two of UseBookBloomsbury Publishing2010-01-01