Culture | When stars collide

The lives and love of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh

As Stephen Galloway shows in “Truly Madly”, theirs was a tumultuous union

Love and other demons

Truly Madly. By Stephen Galloway. Grand Central Publishing; 416 pages; $30. Sphere; £25

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