Synopsis
The final volume of Jeffrey Archer’s bestselling prison diaries.
A Prison Diary Volume III: Heaven covers the period of Archer's transfer from HMP 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.
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.
'A devastating critique written simply and directly' – The Sunday Times
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Reviews
“Truly captures the fear, the violence and the numb bleakness of prison life”Sunday Mirror, 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, Independent on Sunday
“Jeffrey Archer raises these diaries to the standards of a prison Pepys by being such an assiduous recorder of fellow inmates’ secrets”The Mail on Sunday, The Mail on Sunday
