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A Prison Diary Volume I

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A Prison Diary Volume I

By: Jeffrey Archer
Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
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The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I've been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve and a half hours, and will not be let out again until midday; eighteen and a half hours of solitary confinement. There is a child of seventeen in the cell below me who has been charged with shoplifting - his first offence, not even convicted - and he is being locked up for eighteen and a half hours, unable to speak to anyone. This is Great Britain in the twenty-first century, not Turkey, not Nigeria, not Kosovo, but Britain.

On Thursday 19 July 2001, after a perjury trial lasting seven weeks, Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in jail. He was to spend the first twenty-two days and fourteen hours in HMP Belmarsh, a double A-Category high-security prison in South London, which houses some of Britain's most violent criminals.

Hell, the first volume in Archer's The Prison Diaries, is the author's daily record of the time he spent there.

© Jeffrey Archer; (P) Macmillan Publishers Ltd Politicians Politics & Activism Social Sciences

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Fascinating, I was intrigued, I couldn’t leave it alone, a tough time, handled and endured well

Brilliant

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I love everything Jeffrey Archer writes 👍

Just about to start another Jeffrey Archer classic, while I am painting 😊

Excellent as always

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So many audio books to choose from.

And so so many I have bought, but all i want is the 2 follow ups to this book.

Guess I will have to read them !

Get this book its excellent it all ways, simple as that

Bellmarsh With Basics

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being ex prison staff it was nice to hear his experience a
nd I could relate with so much of it

Been there done that got the T Shirt

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I like his short sentence full of the important information. No trivial details. Serious yet humours.

Archer high standard

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