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    Just Me

    By Sheila Hancock

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    'Well now, prove it, Sheila. As John would say, "Put your money where your mouth is." Be a depressed widow boring the arse off everyone, or get on with life. Your choice.'

    In The Two of Us Sheila Hancock relived her life with John Thaw - years packed with love and family, work and houses, delight and despair. And then she looked ahead. What next? Gardening, grannying and grumbling, while they all had their pleasures, weren't going to fill the aching void that John had left.

    'Live adventurously', a piece of Quaker advice, was hovering in her mind. So, putting her and John's much-loved house in France on the market - too many memories - she embarked, instead, on a series of journeys. She tried holidaying alone, contending with invisibility and budget flights. She tried travelling in a group, but the questions she wanted to ask were never the ones the guide wanted to answer. She tried relaxing - harder than you might think. Finally, heading out of her comfort zone, she found her travels and new discoveries led her back to her past: to consider her generation - the last to experience the Second World War - and the kind of person it made her.

    Just Me is a book about moving on, but it is also about looking back, and looking anew. Sheila, whether facing down burglars and easyJet staff (cross her at your peril) or making friends with waiters and taxi drivers, whether unearthing secrets in Budapest, getting arrested in Thailand, exulting in the art of Venice or mingling with the Mafia in Milan, is never less than stimulating company. Honest - because if you can't say what you think at seventy-five, when can you? - insightful and wonderfully down-to-earth, she is a woman seizing the future with wit, gusto and curiosity - on her own.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateNov 3, 2008
    ISBN9781408801598
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    Sheila Hancock

    Sheila Hancock is one of Britain's most highly regarded and popular actors, and received an OBE for services to drama in 1974 and a CBE in 2011. Since the 1950s she has enjoyed a career across Film, Television, Theatre and Radio. Her first big television role was in the BBC sitcom The Rag Trade in the early 1960s. She has directed and acted for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Following the death of her husband, John Thaw, she wrote a memoir of their marriage, The Two of Us, which was a no. 1 bestseller and won the British Book Award for Author of the Year. Her memoir of her widowhood, Just Me, also a bestseller, was published in 2007. She lives in London and France.

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    • 4/5
      I was keen to read this memoir after reading The Two of Us written after the author's husband, John Thaw, died. The title says it all. This is about her life now on her own - journeys she takes, memories of life with John and decisions she makes. Although it didn't have the impact of her previous memoir on me, this was a good read. She writes well, with remarkable honesty and a lot of spirit.
    • 4/5
      Moving story of Sheila Hancock's coming to terms with the death of her husband, actor John Thaw and the way she coped.
    • 2/5
      Funny in these mysteries, in the last Golden Age mystery I read, an unmarried woman of 65 or 64 was considered an elderly, delicate lady. In this one, a "spinster" of 39 is considered past her prime and middle-aged. Now-a-days, a woman of 39 is just coming into her own and a woman in her 60's is usually vibrant and thriving. Change of life expectancy and perspective I suppose. This book had too many errors for my taste. If I can spot them, there are too many. The Irishman's brogue was inconsistant and annoying. Didn't like the story. The mystery wasn't bad, but the characters were inconsistent and artifical. Mr. Palmer needed a better editor.