When John Thaw star of The Sweeney & Inspector Morse died from cancer in 2002 a nation lost one of its finest actors & Sheila Hancock lost a beloved husb&. In this unique double biography she chronicles their lives
- personal & professional together & 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 & television was beginning to make its mark. With his roles in Z-Cars & 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 & a RADA education. Sheila was already the star of the TV series The Rag Trade & went on to become the first woman artistic director at the RSC. Theirs was a sometimes turbulent always passionate relationship & in this remarkable book Sheila describes their love
- weathering overwork & the pressures of celebrity drink & cancer
- with honesty & piercing intelligence & evokes two lives lived to the utmost.