She was working as a freelance production assistant on the set of the TV mini-series Wagner when she met Richard Burton.
In her review of the book, Barbara Ellen in The Guardian wrote The suspicion forms that Sally's unspoken motivation was to derail, once and for all, the Liz-Dickie show.
To demonstrate that, despite all those tales of Burton's sending secret final love letters to Taylor, in which he wrote of yearning to "come home" to her, in truth, he had gone right off her, and, considering what he was writing, near despised her.
To my mind, this none-too-subtle attempt to undermine the Burton/Taylor-myth looks a bit vindictive – especially considering that Taylor is dead now, and can't flash those violet eyes, and open that fabulous fishwife mouth, in reply.
[8] The award was shared in 2012 by Ingle Knight and Tommy Murphy who would each receive a commission of $15,000 at the completion of a new play.