A Prison Diary Volume III

THE FINAL VOLUME IN ARCHER'S POWERFUL ACCOUNT OF LIFE INSIDE THE PENAL SYSTEM Day 115 Saturday 10th November 2001 6.38am "It's all an act. I am hopelessly unhappy, dejected and broken. I smile when I am at my lowest, I laugh when I see no humour, I help others when I need help myself. I am alone. If I were to show any sign, even for a moment, of what I'm going through, I would have to read the details in some tabloid the following day. Everything I do is only a phone call away from a friendly journalist with an open cheque book. I don't know where I have found the strength to maintain this facade and never break down in anyone's presence."The final volume of Jeffrey Archer's prison diaries covers the period of his transfer from Wayland to his eventual release on parole in July 2003. It includes a shocking account of the traumatic time he spent in the notorious Lincoln jail and the events that led to his incarceration there - it also throws light on a system that is close to breaking point. Told with humour, compassion and honesty, it closes with a thought-provoking manifesto that should be applauded by the Establishment and prison population alike.

“Jeffrey Archer raises these diaries to the standards of a prison Pepys by being such an assiduous recorderof fellow inmates' secrets”

Jeffrey Archer raises these diaries to the standards of a prison Pepys by being such an assiduous recorder
of fellow inmates’ secrets

Mail on Sunday
Truly captures the fear, the violence and the numb bleakness of prison life Sunday Mirror
The finest thing that he has ever written . . . so clear and crisp is the prose, a vivid and almost “live” account which bubbles with Dickensian detail and a Shavian sense of outrage . . . riveting Independent on Sunday

Jeffrey Archer is the bestselling author of eleven novels. In August 2001, he was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury. During that time he wrote three Prison Diaries. He was released in July 2003.

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