By Myself and Then SomeLauren Bacall was barely 20 when she made her Hollywood debut with Humphrey Bogart and became an overnight sex symbol. Their romance on and off screen made them Hollywood's most celebrated couple and together they produced some of the most electric scenes in movie history. But when Bogart died of cancer in 1957, Bacall had to find a way of living beyond the fairytale and ironic way she had evolved. In a time of post war communism, Hollywood

is in crisis

Alex lives a comfortable life with his wife Beth in the leafy suburb of Silver Vale

The senator is Cicero

' Lucy Clarke

and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks

from New York to London

These silent

superstition and prejudice but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse

a Scot who must hold his post to the last man

And why must he fulfil this extraordinary challenge

But her uncle

treachery and undaunted courage