AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

SIMON CALLOW

LOVE IS WHERE IT FALLS

An account of a passionate friendship

The true story of untested but passionate love between two extraordinary people

When Simon Callow first met Peggy Ramsay he could hardly have suspected that his encounter with the near-legendary play agent would blossom into passionate love. There was the age difference for one thing: Callow was barely 30, Peggy was in her seventies. And then there was the matter of Aziz, the handsome but mercurial Egyptian with whom Callow was already deeply in love...

For the next eleven years, under Peggy's adoring tutelage, Callow underwent an education of the mind and heart that can have few equals. Peggy imbued him with her philosophy of life and love - and with her conviction of the pre-eminence of art. At the start of the book he was at the start of his career. By the time Peggy died in 1991 - and Callow's account of her death is unbearably moving - he was a household name, but also, thanks to Peggy, an immensely more mature and complex human being.

In this extraordinarily revealing memoir, Simon Callow tells the story of their all consuming absorption in each other, quoting freely from their passionately unbridled letters. He captures the fiery intensity and reckless gestures, the bliss, the tenderness, the anguish of their love. A love which during its compulsive course was to reverberate with tragedy.

This unforgettable love story is by turns moving, inspiring, funny and heartbreaking. It is also a courageously intimate tribute to a remarkable woman.

SIMON CALLOW is equally well-known as an actor, a theatre director, and an author. He has appeared in some twenty films including A Room With A View, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Shakespeare in Love. His stage roles include Faust, Falstaff, Orlando, Mozart and Oscar Wilde. His production of The Pajama Game opens this year. He is the author of a seminal book on acting, Being An Actor, and of two acclaimed biographies, A Difficult Actor - Charles Laughton and Orson Wells - The Road to Xanadu.

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