When John Thaw, the star of The Sweeney and Inspector Morse, died from cancer in 2002, the nation lost one of its finest actors and Sheila Hancock lost a beloved husband. In this double biography she chronicles their lives, both before they met and after their marriage in 1974. It is story of a love that survived celebrity, overwork, drink and cancer, poignantly interwoven with excerpts from Sheila's diary for the last year of their life together.