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Reading Madly, Deeply is like being behind the scenes of Alan Rickman's life: looking at Professor Severus Snape from Potter, Hans Gruber from Die Hard, and Colonel Brandon from Sense and Sensibility. But not only an actor, but also a director, a husband, a friend, a traveller. Not an image, but the real Rickman. For an image is always someone's distorted mirror.

He was perceived as a pompous aristocrat - and from his youth he was devoted to Labour ideals and sceptical of the conventions of British royalism. He was considered an actor whose charisma no woman could resist - and for half a century he was unwaveringly faithful to Rima Gorton.

He was not what people imagined him to be. And what was he like? The 26 diaries that Rickman kept from 1993 until his death in 2016 will help us understand. Crazy, deep, ironic, sincere. Where not every day is a holiday, but every day is life.