People Like Us : Life with Rob Lacey

'I want to die fully alive so my soul's got extended capacity for heaven.'---Rob LaceyPeople Like Us is the story of Rob Lacey, poet, actor, and award-winning author of The Street Bible. It is so much more than Rob Lacey's biography.People Like Us is the passionate and poetic account of an artistic soul enamored with God, and of the woman who loved him. It is a love story of two people, a writer and a dancer, born to be together for all eternity.People Like Us is the memoir Rob Lacey would have written himself.He never got the chance. In May 2006, Rob went to be with the God he adored. Foregoing medical treatment for cancer, he squeezed every last drop out of life that he possibly could, right up to the end. That's just how Rob Lacey was.Now his wife and best friend, Sandra Harnisch-Lacey, shares Rob's story, her story, their story. Vibrant with laughter and moistened with tears, People Like Us is a memoir of faith, hope, and love that endures forever.

German-born choreographer and dancer Sandra Lacey lives and works in Cardiff, Wales, where she is mum to two wonderful children and artistic director of the renowned Harnisch-Lacey Dance Theatre. Sandra was married to Rob Lacey for eleven years, and together they founded Lacey Theatre Company, as well as collaborating on many performance projects over the years. Sandra also teaches Contemporary Dance and is a Pilates Foundation Teacher. Sandra enjoys spending time with her family and friends and takes every opportunity she can to fly off to somewhere in Europe or overseas. Steve Stickley has been acting, writing and directing theatre professionally for over thirty years. Artistic Director of the long-established Footprints Theatre, his passions include storytelling with children, cinema, watching motor racing, food and laughing. Originally a Norfolk boy, he now lives in Nottingham with his wife, Janet, and Albert the daschund.