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The true story behind the 2023 ITV series STONEHOUSE starring Matthew Macfayden and Keeley Hawes

An extraordinary life a vivid account Telegraph

Completely absorbing CAROL ANN LEE author of The Murders at White House Farm and A Passion For Poison

I literally consumed the book in just a few hungry sittings most definitely a must read DR SALEYHA AHSAN filmmaker and journalist Cambridge

In November 1974 British MP and former cabinet minister John Stonehouse walked into the sea off a beach in Miami and disappeared seemingly drowned

Then he was found on the other side of the world in Australia and his extraordinary story began to come to light a Labour cabinet minister and a devoted family man also in a longterm affair with his secretary and a spy for the Czech State Security agency who had committed fraud and attempted to fake his own death to escape catastrophic business failures

Was it a mental breakdown as he later claimed Or were there more sinister reasons for his dramatic disappearance

This is the definitive biography of Stonehouse written by Julian Hayes who as the son of Stonehouses nephew and lawyer Michael Hayes is uniquely placed to tell the story of this charismatic but deeply flawed politician