Getting Away With It: a play about Jeremy Thorpe

by Michael Bloch

THE NEXT CHAPTER ON JEREMY THORPE Michael Bloch’s definitive biography of Jeremy Thorpe, the Liberal Party leader whose career spectacularly ended amid a murder scandal, received enormous critical acclaim on its publication in 2014. This is the story that inspired the hit BBC TV show A Very British Scandal, starring Hugh Grant. And now, this original work further explores Thorpe’s narcissistic, risk-taking personality - in the form of a dramatic monologue interspersed with acted scenes. Originally commissioned for a major London theatre, it remains a unique and provocative extension of, and companion to, Michael Bloch's official biography. The author of some twenty books, Bloch read law at St John’s College, Cambridge and was called to the bar by the Inner Temple. During the 1980s he worked in Paris for Maître Suzanne Blum, lawyer of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and wrote six books about the couple. An intimate friend of the architectural conservationist James Lees-Milne, he wrote his biography and edited five volumes of his diary. His other subjects include Hitler’s foreign minister Ribbentrop and F. M. Alexander, founder of the Alexander Technique.

71 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 26, 2019