Love at an End

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Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.

Not just a marriage but one of the great love stories of its time.

As actors, separately or together, their box office appeal was tremendous.

And off stage their passionate affair captured the hearts of millions.

At the height of their stardom in 1948, with Laurence Olivier artistic director of the Old Vic, they went on tour with his cast to Australia and New Zealand.

The Old Vic tour they led was a symbolic public ‘Thank You’ from Britain for all the help the two countries had given during the war.

In public, their’s was a near-regal progress.

But in private …

In private, a marriage already under strain was about to be tested and stressed to the limit.

The tour was to be a turning point in their lives.

A point they would never be able to recover from...

‘Love at an End’ vividly, movingly recreates the events and tensions of that year in Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh’s lives.

‘Casts new light on Olivier’s qualities as a leader’ - Books and Bookmen

‘Strong on detail … should enjoy a wide reader-ship’ - Melbourne Age

‘Confirms Garry O’Connor’s excellence as a theatrical biographer’ - New Zealand Bulletin

‘The mythology of one of the century’s most celebrated marriages … a brilliantly perceptive portrait’ - The Observer

‘With real insight O’Connor gets plausibly close to what made Olivier and his wife tick as artists … a penetrating, utterly objective mind at work’ - Irish Times

‘Compulsive … the pair who were Charles and Di, Torville and Dean, Tragedy and Comedy, Scylla and Charybdis all rolled into one’ - Vogue

Garry O’Connor is a playwright, biographer and novelist whose work includes biographies of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. He co-wrote the memoir of Sir Derek Jacobi, and his own work Chaucer’s Triumph has been both a novel and a play.

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Language: English

Pages: 205

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Endeavour Press

Release: September 24, 2015

Love at an End

Garry O'Connor

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Pages: 205

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