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>>In September (Bloomsbury who published 'The Two of >>Us') are also publishing Sheila's new follow-up book >>called 'Just Me'. This will be in hardback and cost >>£18.99, just thought i'd let you all know. I'll be >>getting when the time comes. >>Janet. > > > ‘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 relived her life with John >Thaw – years packed with love and family, 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 Quaker advice, was hovering >around her brain. Putting her and John’s much loved >house in France on the market she embarked 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 the things she discovered, 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 or making >friends with waiters and taxi drivers, whether >unearthing secrets in Budapest, getting arrested in >Thailand, exulting in the art of Venice or searching >for a decent cup of coffee in Dorset, is never less >than stimulating company. Honest – because if you >can’t say what you think at seventy-three, when can >you? – insightful and wonderfully down to earth, she >is a woman seizing the future with wit, gusto and >curiosity, on her own
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