In Search of the Rainbow's End: Inside the White House Farm Murders

by Colin Caffell

**THE TRUE STORY BEHIND MAJOR ITV DRAMA WHITE HOUSE FARM , NOW ON NETFLIX**

'An extraordinary book . . . both deeply moving and quietly inspiring' FREDDIE FOX

'A beautiful, very moving book' CRESSIDA BONAS

In 1985, the shocking murder of a family of five in a quiet country house in Essex rocked the nation. The victims were Nevill and June Bamber; their adopted daughter Sheila Caffell, divorced from her husband Colin; and Sheila and Colin's twin sons, Nicholas and Daniel. Only one survivor the Bamber's other adopted child, Jeremy Bamber. Following his lead, the police - and later the press - blamed the murders on Sheila, who, so the story went, then committed suicide.

Written by Sheila's ex-husband Colin and originally published in 1994, In Search of the Rainbow's End is the first and only book about the White House Farm murders to have been written by a family member. It is the inside story of two families into whose midst the most monstrous events erupted. When Jeremy Bamber is later convicted on all five counts of murder, Colin is left to pick up the pieces of his life after not only burying his ex-wife, two children and parents-in-law, but also having to cope with memories of Sheila almost shattered by a predatory press hungry for stories of sex, drugs and the high life.

Colin's tale is not just a rare insider's picture of murder, but testimony to the strength and resilience of one man in search of healing after he describes his process of recovery, a process that led to his working in prisons, helping to rehabilitate,among others, convicted murderers.

By turns emotive, terrifying, and inspiring, Colin Caffell's account of mass murder and its aftermath will not fail to move and astonish.

368 pages, Paperback

Published November 30, 2021

Reviews

[Phil Rice]

A truly inspirational man for what he has gone through with the loss of his twin sons and their mother to what police originally thought was a Murder Suicide but after pure determination and grit by one of the investigating detectives who was totally convinced that Jeremy Bamber had shot dead not only his sister and his twin nephews and his adopted Mum and Dad and after a confession to the police by Jeremy's ex girlfriend the police arrested Jeremy Bamber for murder of the victims and as later scenteced to life and was subsequently changed to a whole life tariff and of which Bamber is still protesting his innocene after being prison for over 30 years. Colin Caffell has done very very well indeed to write this book and give you an insight of being a victim after losing his beloved sons and the mother of his sons and Colin also tells the reader how he was taken in by Bamber stating that his adopted sister knew how to handle guns and with her mental health issues was in a rage when she shot them all and turned the gun on herself. Alas enter the silencer when test were done by the police on one of the female officers that was on the case and who was the same height as Shelia they proved there was no way Shelia had shot her family and turn the gun on herself with the silencer attached wthout breaking her cleanly manicured nails and not break them due to the length of the gun with the silencer on. In my eyes Jeremy Bamber is one of the most evil minded killers in the UK all for the hope and vain that he would have inherieted the family fortune and farm in Essex if his adopted family had passed away.

[Natalia]

I won't give this book a rating because I don't think it's appropriate, but I'm glad to read about this story from such a close perspective.

[Robyn Heigold · Rating 3 out of 5]

As much as I enjoyed this book, parts of it just felt wrong. I think this is mostly because it was originally written so long ago.
Overall a great book about finding yourself again after a huge traumatic loss.

[Terry Hodson · Rating 1 out of 5]

It was very long-winded and boring in places and too much emphasis was on Colin Caffell himself.

[Cheri · Rating 3 out of 5]

For most of this book I was totally captivated. The last 100 pages I really wasn't into.