5/21/2023 0 Comments Dark Star by Alan StrachanHe was Leigh Holman, kind and reliable, and became a lawyer and her lifelong friend. ‘I think he is the perfect type of Englishman,’ she commented. Accepted by Rada, she was introduced to a fair young man on a chestnut horse. ‘When I leave school, I am going to be a great actress,’ she announced and Strachan convincingly argues that she did become one. She was educated by Roman Catholic nuns and read a lot, including Rudyard Kipling. This was not unusual, but that does not mean that she did not feel abandoned. When she was six, she was sent to school in England. She was born in Darjeeling in 1913, her father, Ernest Hartley, a stockbroker. It is often a component of a binary star and can cause the brightness of its visible partner to vary periodically.’ That is to say, Vivien Leigh was bipolar and married Laurence Olivier, and these things dominated her life. ‘Dark Star’ is a suitable enough title in itself, but the definition makes it a brilliant one: ‘A Dark Star’, we are told in this book, ‘is shadowed, often detectable by its gravitational effect on other bodies.
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