“Is that Peter Coogan with you?” I had just arrived at a city-centre restaurant and spotted my friend – a man well known in banking circles – seated with several of his colleagues. The question caught me slightly off guard. I had assumed they would be asking about another Coogan, whose company Peter and I were in that evening. The other Coogan was the actor Steve Coogan – my cousin on my mother’s side – who was hosting a party that included Daisy Lewis of Downton Abbey, my brother, the actor Aidan McArdle, Peter Coogan (Steve’s uncle), and Peter’s wife,…

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