Out Of My Depth (True Crime) by Anne Darwin with David Leigh

Paperback:  "It felt like the right time to tell my own story, in my own words..."

In 2002, when mother-of-two Anne Darwin told the world - and her family - that her husband, John, had disappeared while canoeing in the North Sea, her life changed forever.  She had just lied to to the police, the press, her friends and neighbours, insurance companies and her own sons.

While her husband hid in their rental house next door, Anne had to face the music.  She claimed the life insurance payouts, endured the police questioning, accepted the consolations - then left with him to start a new life in Panama.

Now, for the first time, Anne opens up about an extraordinary chain of events:  her decision to take part in her husband's hare-brained scheme;  her life and marriage before, during and after the crime was spectacularly revealed;  her harrowing time behind bars and the runaway train of deceit and guilt that followed their plan to defraud insurance companies with the aid of a canoe.

Out Of My Depth (2016) is the extraordinary true story of a woman's journey from ordinary housewife to Canoe Widow, Panama and prison.  "Anne's often heart-wrenching story is one of extreme regret, remorse, shame and, finally, redemption.  She deserves great credit for being brave enough to tell her side of a story that engrossed millions of people across the world, but that left her in the very depths of despair," wrote Leigh, the co-author, in the Foreword.

*Anne's fee for her book goes to the RSPCA and the RNLI.

About the authors:  Anne Darwin, a softly spoken and unassuming former doctor's receptionist, has done much to repair her relationship with her two sons.  She now works for an animal charity and lives alone.

David Leigh is an award-winning journalist, who developed a remarkable relationship with Anne after uncovering her crime in Panama, shortly before Christmas in December 2007.  He won the London Press Club's Scoop Of The Year Award and the National Association of Press Agencies' news story of the year for his reporting on John Darwin 'Canoe Man'.