My story / Schapelle Corby with Kathryn Bonella.

By: Corby, Schapelle, 1977- [author.]Contributor(s): Bonella, Kathryn [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Edition: Revised editionDescription: 321 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : colour photographs, portraits ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760785048Other title: My story : fully revised and updated since her release and return homeSubject(s): Corby, Schapelle, 1977- | Corby, Schapelle, 1977- -- Trials, litigation, etc | Drug traffic -- Indonesia | Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- Indonesia | Trials (Narcotic laws) -- Indonesia | Women prisoners -- Indonesia -- BiographyGenre/Form: Trial and arbitral proceedings. DDC classification: 365.6092 Summary: Schapelle Corby walked out of Kerobokan Prison in 2014, leaving behind a dark hellhole of violence, corruption and squalor, and straight into a global media circus.She had been Hotel K's most famous inmate.Schapelle was a 27-year-old beauty-school student when, in 2004, Bali customs officers found 4.2 kilograms of marijuana in her boogie-board bag. She was convicted of a crime she still vehemently denies committing. She spent ten years in Hotel K, where she survived unimaginable horrors, corrupt guards, degrading conditions and abuse at the hands of other prisoners, but also, amazingly, found the love of her life - a love that still burns strong. In this revised and updated edition of My Story, first published in 2006, Schapelle describes her descent into madness and finding her way back, the chaos of her release, the trials of surviving outside on parole and, eventually, her dramatic return to Australia, all the while hounded mercilessly by the media. This is the first time since 2006 that Schapelle has spoken, driven by a determination to show she has emerged, scarred, but with her dignity, humour and courage intact.
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Previously published: 2006 and 2013.

Schapelle Corby walked out of Kerobokan Prison in 2014, leaving behind a dark hellhole of violence, corruption and squalor, and straight into a global media circus.She had been Hotel K's most famous inmate.Schapelle was a 27-year-old beauty-school student when, in 2004, Bali customs officers found 4.2 kilograms of marijuana in her boogie-board bag. She was convicted of a crime she still vehemently denies committing. She spent ten years in Hotel K, where she survived unimaginable horrors, corrupt guards, degrading conditions and abuse at the hands of other prisoners, but also, amazingly, found the love of her life - a love that still burns strong. In this revised and updated edition of My Story, first published in 2006, Schapelle describes her descent into madness and finding her way back, the chaos of her release, the trials of surviving outside on parole and, eventually, her dramatic return to Australia, all the while hounded mercilessly by the media. This is the first time since 2006 that Schapelle has spoken, driven by a determination to show she has emerged, scarred, but with her dignity, humour and courage intact.

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