Dearest Squirrel': The Intimate Letters of John Osborne and Pamela Lane - Hardcover

John Osborne; Pamela Lane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1786823926 ISBN 13: 9781786823922

Publisher: Oberon Books, 2018

Synopsis

A completely fresh insight into the mind of one of the UKs greatest playwrights, the letters between John Osborne and his first wife, actress Pamela Lane, are also a love letter to a now defunct system of repertory theatre, and life in post-war Britain. As these letters reveal, soon after their divorce, Osborne and Lane began a mutually supportive, loyal, frequently stormy and sometimes sexually intimate alliance lasting thirty years until Osbornes death. By the mid-1980s, they had become closer and more trusting than they had been since their earliest years together.  You are for me what you always were, Pamela told him, I am in love with you still.  It is, he declared, my fortune to have loved someone for a lifetime. Acerbic, witty, candid and heartbreaking, they reveal a unique relationship, troubled, tender and enduring.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Whitebrook was born in London and has written and broadcast extensively on the theatre and literature. His co-adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath won a Fringe First Award. His biography of John Osborne was nominated for both the Sheridan Morley Prize for biography, and the Theatre Book Prize.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786823926
• ISBN 13: 9781786823922
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Peter Whitebrook