The Two of Us

by Sheila Hancock

  Nicholas Evans, ‘Walk Within You’ from The Smoke Jumper by Nicholas Evans, published by Bantam Press. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd, UK and A. P. Watt Inc., USA.

  Philip Larkin, ‘The Mower’ from Collected Poems by Philip Larkin. Reproduced by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd, UK, and Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc., USA.

  Primo Levi, ‘To My Friends’ from Collected Poems by Primo Levi. Reproduced by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd, UK, and Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc., USA.

  Edna St Vincent Millay, ‘Sonnet 2: Time Does Not Bring Relief’ from The Collected Poems of Edna St Vincent Millay. Reproduced by permission of Random House USA, Inc.

  Other

  John Madden, John Thaw Obituary (‘His shyness was the source of his genius’), Observer, 24 February 2002, reproduced here by kind permission of John Madden.

  The author and publishers gratefully acknowledge permission to quote from the private letters of Sally Alexander, Alma Cullen, Udi Eichler, Peter O’Toole, Dr Brian Piggot and Peter Thompson.

  Photographs

  All photographs, unless otherwise stated, are from the author’s private collection and are used with permission.

  For the photographs on the following pages the publishers would like to credit: John Alexander Studio, First Leisure Corporation plc, FremantleMedia, Matthew Harvey, John Haynes, ITV/Carlton Television, Manchester Picture Library, Beattie Meyrick, Murray and Carstair, Torquay, Press Association, Royal Court Theatre, Stuart Simpson, Abigail Thaw, Nigel Whitney, Woman’s Realm.

  A NOTE ON THE TYPE

  The text of this book is set in Linotype Sabon, named after the type founder, Jacques Sabon. It was designed by Jan Tschichold and jointly developed by Linotype, Monotype, and Stempel, in response to a need for a typeface to be available in identical form for mechanical hot metal composition and hand composition using foundry type. Tschichold based his design for Sabon roman on a font engraved by Garamond, and Sabon italic on a font by Granjon. It was first used in 1966 and has proved an enduring modern classic.