The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw
by Hancock, Sheila
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0747577099
- ISBN 13
- 9780747577096
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Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Dromanabooks (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38644
- Title
- The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw
- Author
- Hancock, Sheila
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0747577099
- ISBN 13
- 9780747577096
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- 0747577099, Actors Biography, British Actors Biography, Sheila Hancock Biography, Rag Trade Tv Series, Inspector Morse, John Thaw Biography, British Television Series, Actors And Acting, Actors Relationships
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