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It is 1961, the middle of the Cold War, a time of unease and suspicion. An ordinary family in an ordinary London suburb find themselves becoming g friends with the convivial Canadian couple opposite.
However, the pleasant lives of Bob, Barbara and Julie Jackson, Whitemore’s fictional family, are disrupted by the arrival of a stranger claiming to be from MI5 and their home becomes a surveillance post. The objects of the surveillance are Helen and Peter Kroger, their friends whose movements cannot always be accounted for. Layers of treachery and deception unfold and it becomes difficult to be sure who is betraying whom at any one time as real life takes over from fiction. Peter and Helen Kroger were convicted of spying for the Russians and convicted to 20 years’ imprisonment. It could be argued that the problems of the Jackson family continue for much longer.
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