abstract:Nick Charles (born 1944), is the first person to be honoured by the Queen for 'Services to people with alcohol problems'. He is the author of books including autobiography, Through A Glass Brightly, published by Robson Books, and founder of Chaucer Clinic which was UK's largest alcohol project until it closed in 2005.
Their coupling isn't unique -- after all, Dashiell Hammett wrote about the married Nick and Nora Charles more than 70 years ago -- but it's still unusual enough to bring a few new angles to the well-thumbed P.