The Post Office Scandal and Me : My Extraordinary Fight for Justice – Winner of the 2025 Speakies Audiobook Award for Non-Fiction

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*THE INSPIRATIONAL MEMOIR FROM JO HAMILTON, AND WINNER OF THE SPEAKIES AWARD FOR NON-FICTION*WITH A FOREWORD FROM SIR ALAN BATES’Jo is an inspiration’, Monica Dolan, who played Jo in the ITV drama, Mr Bates vs The Post Office’My first big discrepancy came in the shape of a £2,000 shortfall that just made no sense at all. Of all the things that kept me awake once in the thick of the nightmare that unfolded, it was being stuck in that truly incomprehensible moment where the mere touch of a button suddenly turned £2,000 into £4,000 within three minutes on that cold December night in 2003.’Jo Hamilton was one of more than 700 sub-postmasters prosecuted between 2000 and 2014 based on information from the Post Office’s faulty Horizon accounting system. She was told to put right a wrong she hadn’t committed and pushed to the very brink of her existence – remortgaging her house, borrowing from anyone she could in order to repay money that she hadn’t taken, and questioning her own sanity.