Roger Lewis

Norman Scott has the last word on a very English scandal

The hypocrisy, class bias and establishment cover-up throughout the Thorpe affair is fully revealed in Scott’s long-awaited memoir

Norman Scott walking his dogs in Devon in June 1979. [Getty Images]
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  • An Accidental Icon: How I Dodged a Bullet, Spoke Truth to Power and Lived to Tell the Tale

    Norman Scott

    Hodder, pp. 336, £20

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