The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe

Edit:- I have just looked up the book, Out of my Depth, which was published in 2016, according to a note on Amazon Anne Darwin has not received any fees from the publication of the book.

Glad to hear that as, to me, it would be profiting from crime.  Do we know where any book sales money has gone?  Presumably David Leigh has made money out of it.

The BBC are showing ‘Canoe Man’ on iPlayer at the moment. Interesting to compare both dramas about the same event.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rs2kc

Not for sure Jill although one of the reviews on Amazon mentions RNLI being a beneficiary, which when I read it I thought it was quite ironic! I can't confirm that is true either. I think David Leigh is the journalist that tracked her down in Panama? No doubt as a professional there would have been fees/royalties?  The book is available to read on a Kindle download and I think Margaret is going to download it as its not expensive.

David

I read a few pages of the book via "look inside" on Amazon but it wasn't much of a read, very basic stuff. I also had a look at an old youtube clip, from itv, showing "AD" talking about the events. The more questions she was asked the less credible the answers became and I thought it was quite bizarre. 

Margaret is currently working her way through the book and no doubt I will report back when she has finished. Just one thing to confirm. Anne Darwin received no fees or royalties from the book according to what Margaret has read in the book. What would have been her fees were divided between the RNLI and the RSPCA.

David

Now we have the ability for catch up TV I thought I'd watch this having read the thread.

Sadly I haven't yet, couldn't find it on iplayer but did find and watch canoe man.. it refreshed my memory and I was surprised how long ago it was!

Has anyone else found it on iplayer?

B2, it's not iPlayer but on ITV Hub.

Margaret has finished the book, she said it was an easy read. She got the impression that Anne Darwin was just frightened of being on her own and she was clearly scared that her husband would leave. She regretted what had happened especially the impact on her family. One fascinating element of the book was the detail of being in prison. Whilst she didn't like, obviously, being in prison she didn't appear to have too tough a time, although she did have some infamous fellow prisoners!!!.The person she seemed most grateful to was the journalist who found her in Panama, perhaps it offered her a way out?

David

Glad I'm not the only one who searches the wrong channel for catch up.