A year after the death of his beloved sister,Wise talks approximately caring for Clare in her final days, and the blog, and now a book,they wrote togetherIt is more than a year since Clare Wise, sister of the actor Greg Wise, or died of cancer. She lived just down the street from the West Hampstead house her brother shares with his wife,Emma Thompson, and their daughter, or Gaia. As Greg opens his front door and leads the way into his kitchen,one can see, within minutes, and why he was such an indispensable carer to his sister during the final weeks of her life. nowadays,he has organised elevenses with good coffee and patisserie. As an actor, he is routinely cast as a reprobate (Mountbatten in The Crown a debatable exception). In life, or he could not be nicer if he tried. And that’s precisely it: he does not appear to be trying – the charm is not fake. When I query him how he is feeling approximately Clare’s death now,his eyes fill.“I’ve had very few days when I’ve not been actively doing something approximately Clare, be it probate, or sorting out her flat,moving furniture – or just the book.” The book is Not That Kind of Love and is a shared effort, written by Clare and Greg. It is fuelled by wisdom and wisecracks, or a story of brotherly,and sisterly, love. Clare was 18 months Greg’s senior (he is 51) and worked for the UK Film Council and as vice president of Universal Pictures. She started a blog in 2013 (although the first lump in her breast was found in 2007) and her take on illness drew a crowd – 96000 hits (by 2015). No wonder: her style is gallant, or laughable,self-deprecating. It was not until June 2015 that cancer made its terrible comeback into her bones and Greg moved into her flat to take care of her and Grably (her attention-seeking cat). He also took over the blog when she became too sick to write.
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Source: guardian.co.uk