Product Description

It was meant to be a two-week holiday to celebrate her sister's birthday, but for Schapelle Corby it ended up a waking nightmare. Arrested at Denpasar airport after marijuana was found in her luggage, she became the victim of every traveller's darkest fear. Over four kilograms of drugs had been planted in her bag after she'd checked it in and she was forced to face the consequences of someone else's crime in a country where the penalties for drug smuggling are among the harshest in the world. Her trial and conviction became one of the biggest news stories of the decade and her family watched in horror as she was sentenced to 20 years in jail. Yet despite the huge media coverage, the one voice the public never properly heard was Schapelle's. Now, in this compelling book, she tells her own story: of being wrenched from a carefree holiday and incarcerated in a stinking police cell and of learning to survive - in the squalor, discomfort and violence of an Indonesian jail. It is an account like no other and will be one of the most unforgettable books you'll ever read.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13982 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

About the Author
Schapelle Corby was born in 1977 in Queensland, Australia. She was imprisoned in May 2005 and is serving her sentence in Bali's Kerobokan Prison. Her current release date is in 2024. Kathryn Bonella first got involved in Schapelle Corby's story in 2004, while working as a producer for Australia's 60 Minutes show. In 2005, Kathryn moved to Bali to work with Schapelle on this book.

Customer Reviews

Heartbreaking
I couldn't put this book down from the minute I recieved it. I had previously read some of the information about Schapelle online, but wasn't too sure about any real details.

Although some of these type of books go on about the author telling you how innocent they were, this book contains much more information surrounding the structure of the Balienese legal system (or lack of it), and the court proceedings.

Through it all my heart just went out to this woman who is left rotting away in hell for 20 years of her life.

I would highly recomend this book to anyone who is thinking about taking time out to travel.

Witness for the Defence
Ms Corby has over a dozen web sites supporting her innocence, and dozens of bloggers from both sides. The pro camp insist that she was set up for the Bali airport bust where over 4kgs of hydroponically grown marijuana was discovered as she landed from Sydney, while the against bloggers grumble that she must have been aware of the contents of her oversize `boogie' surf-board bag. They point to her party-loving family and friends but scarcely prove much. The book is naturally in the pro group building a case only slightly marred by feverish insistence and sentimentality.
Professionally written by a journalist working with Schapelle, No More Tomorrows keeps interest high even if questions remain. The book is among the better of this year's prison-hell books, although for those who are looking for someone who does not claim innocence the year's choice I believe would be David McMillan's Escape. Escape: The True Story of the Only Westerner Ever to Break Out of the Bangkok HiltonPreviously published by Monsoon Books in Asia, Escape comes also from Mainstream Publishing, specialists in the true crime field. Corby's account holds the reader as might a witness's testimony, fascinating yet incomplete. Escape reads like a thriller, true as it is, and readers would do well to compare the two, for the jury's still out in Corby's bookshop trial.

Scary!!!
Absolutely superb.
The majority of books of this nature are read when the person has been released from jail and is relieving their experiences.Not with this. Schapelle is still there and for many moons to come.Deeply moving and a really, really good read.
With regards to her guilt or innocence, I think only Schapelle really nows that.