Book description
'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. This is the
author's daily record of the time he spent there.
Jeffrey Archer, whose bestselling novels span from Not a Penny More,
Not a Penny Less to Kane and Abel and The Eleventh Commandment, has
sold over 120 million books throughout the world. In 1992 he was
elevated to the House of Lords. In 2001 he was sentenced to four years
in prison and his current address is HMP Hollesley Bay, Suffolk. He is
married with two children.
