Joyce in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of As You Like It in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1996 But, as it is for anyone who has lost someone, you always think – he should be here. ‘He was in France and I was at home in Britain with my children. ‘The night before he died, I woke up in the middle of the night feeling toxic,’ Rachel adds. Just five months later he was granted his final wish – to see the South of France, where the family spent so many happy holidays, for one last time. Martin was diagnosed with cancer of the neck and head in February 2007. He also really loved the poem Adelstrop by Edward Thomas.’ ‘He didn’t read much because as a child his mother would always say to him, “What are you reading for, haven’t you got anything proper to do?” But he did love spy novels, especially John le Carré. ‘He was a big cyclist – his great hero was (the legendary British cyclist) Tommy Simpson and he loved the Tour de France and his holiday home in the village of Roquecor in the South of France,’ Rachel says. Rachel’s father was an architect who lived a quiet, unassuming life devoted to his career and his family.
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