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 Forget You Had A Daughter - Sandra Gregory
Description: ISBN 1904132278 / Author: Sandra Gregory / Genre: Biography / The A-format edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller in which Sandra Gregory ... more  Forget You Had A Daughter - Sandra Gregory ... relates her experiences of her time spent in prison in Thailand and Britain after she was caught smuggling heroin. Brutally truthful, this is the unforgettable story of a good woman who made a mistake that changed the rest of her life. A world-wide publication date ensures publicity including a 3 page feature in Marie Claire. The book will be submitted for summer bookstore promotions.Newest Review: ... him, in return for £1000. Sandra never made it on the plane, she was discovered by customs officials and arrested. In this ... more ... book she details her trial in Thailand and her four years as a prisoner in Lard Yao, later when she is transfererd to the British prison system she talks of Holloway prison and also Durham Prison where she served time along side the infamous Rosemary West.
Yet the book is so much more than the simple story of her time in prison, she is painfully honest about her feelings of guilt and grief, how much she missed her family and how ashamed she was of herself. At times she is in deep depression.
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Format: paperback, Publisher: VISION Paperbacks, ISBN: 1904132278
Pages: 280, Edition: New Ed, Paperback, VISION Paperbacks - Books ... |
£ 5.49 |
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Forget You Had A Daughter - Sandra Gregory: Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton. (609 words)
by KTW - written on 19.09.06 (Very useful, 126 readings)
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In 1993 Sandra Gregory was arrested at Bangkok airport for attempting to smuggle 89g of heorin aboard a plane to Japan. Forget You Had A Daughter, is her memoir of the events leading to her arrest, and her subsequent stay at Lard Yao prison in Bangkok and Later Holloway and Durham prison in the UK. Having left school with no formal qualifications Sandra Gregory decided to travel to Thailand in 1990. Once there she lived happily for over two years, however in 1993 a mixture of illness, unemployment, lack of funds and political unrest caused Sandra to feel she needed to return home. Reluctant to appear a failure in the eyes of her family, ...
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