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In Plain Sight
In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile | Dan Davies
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Winner of the 2015 Gordon Burn Prize and the 2015 CWA Non-Fiction Dagger Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the James Tait Black Prize Dan Davies has spent more than a decade on a quest to find the real Jimmy Savile, and interviewed him extensively over a period of seven years before his death. In the course of his quest, he spent days and nights at a time quizzing Savile at his homes in Leeds and Scarborough, lunched with him at venues ranging from humble transport cafes to the Athenaeum club in London and, most memorably, joined him for a short cruise aboard the QE2. Dan thought his quest had come to an end in October 2011 when Savile's golden coffin was lowered into a grave dug at a 45-degree angle in a Scarborough cemetery. He was wrong. In the last two and a half years, Dan has been interviewing scores of people, many of them unobtainable while Jimmy was alive. What he has discovered was that his instincts were right all along and behind the mask lay a hideous truth. Jimmy Savile was not only complex, damaged and controlling, but cynical, calculating and predatory. He revelled in his status as a Pied Piper of youth and used his power to abuse the vulnerable and underage, all the while covering his tracks by moving into the innermost circles of the establishment.
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Yuki_Onna
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Finally finished this!
A dense, tough, well researched read. Sometimes it's a bit of „He emailed person 1, person 1 then told person 2, person 2 forwarded that to person 3“... and such, but all the dry facts and names are important for the chain of evidence Dan Davies built up.
Over 500 pages of all kinds of emotional and sexual abuse... All the more important is that with this book, among others, the truth is finally brought out into the light.

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Yuki_Onna
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Have been trudging my way through this in what feels like ages (10 days in real life or so). And still I have about 200 pages left.
Having to read hundreds of pages through an account of all kinds of abuse, it's hard.

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brendanmleonard
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Sorry about the bad photo...my skills need some work! 😂Since I couldn't find this true crime book anywhere reasonable I broke down and got it for my Kindle! (I have been using my kindle more since I got a new cord for it.) This book, about the Jimmy Savile case, is excellent and does not disappoint. The structure is fascinating and the story is heartbreaking, but a powerful one for this particular moment wrt truth, celebrity, and powerful men.

Lindy Jimmy Savile comes up in the memoir by a rape survivor that I just finished today: 8y
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Minervasbutler
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Dispassionate retelling of the frightful life of Jimmy Savile which thankfully avoids an excess of prurient detail while making it abundantly clear just what a monster he was.

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