Our age-gap love proved sceptics wrong.

MUSIC and friends: those were the two cornerstones of Judy's world, and she'd filled her life with both since her early childhood. Naturally charismatic, she gravitated towards performing when she was a teenager and by her early 20s, just after World War II, she joined a prestigious touring repertory company. She later recalled how, after meeting him at a party, she'd been asked to audition by none other than Noel Coward. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]