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When John Thaw, star from the Sweeney and Inspector Morse, died from cancer in 2002, a nation lost one of its finest actors. Sheila Hancock lost a beloved husband. In this original double biography she chronicles their lives - personal and professional, together and apart. John Thaw was created in Manchester, the son of your lorry driver. When he attained RADA on the scholarship he felt an outsider. Actually his timing was perfect: it was the sixties and television set was starting to make its mark. With his roles in Z-Cars as well as the Sweeney, fame came quickly. But it was John's role as Morse that made him an icon. In 1974 John 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 Sheila describes their love - weathering overwork and the pressures of celebrity, drink and cancer - with honesty and piercing intelligence. Us is a impressive book - a biography of your born actor and a tender, often heartbreaking memoir of your marriage. Full of insight and vivid memories, it evokes two lives lived to the utmost.
