Forget You Had a Daughter: Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton - Sandra Gregory's Story

click here for more details, find new or used items	Sandra Gregory, Michael Tierney Our price £5.49 (£6.99) New from £0.86 Used from £0.01 Pages: 280 (Paperback) ISBN: 1904132278 Pub: VISION Paperbacks Pub date: 2003-06-12 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 25541

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a lesson to be learnt (0/0 people found this helpful)

This book should be handed out to all teens prior to setting off around the world on their travels ; The message is clear , NEVER NEVER smuggle drugs for anyone or for any reason whatsoever. Sandra's book was enthralling and very touching in places. Her desire to get home to her family was the one thing that got her through this terrible ordeal.

Something for everyone to read before travelling SEAsia (1/1 people found this helpful)

I read this book with interest not least because I spent 3 months travelling SE Asia, in Bankok, Koh Samui, and also Cambodia. I must say I was rather jealous of her time in North Thailand!
Anyway back to the book, it is definitely a good read, well written and a bit of an eye-opener.
However, there were two things about the book that bothered me. Firstly, I found it very difficult to relate to someone, who having lost their job for no fault of their own and had acquired gruesome illnesses, felt unable to ask her parents for the flight money home. I cannot comprehend how smuggling drugs was a preferred option. It is evident in the book that her parents were very supportive both before, during and after her ordeal. I'm convinced there was more to it than she claims.
Secondly, I get the feeling that shes hiding some of her true feelings about what happened to her. Some of the accounts feel like they have been written through gritted teeth, as if shes saying what she thinks she should say rather than what she really felt.
I do have some sympathy for her as her punishment probably did outweigh the crime - and the 'rehabilition' process is another debate. But punishments such as this will probably deter a lot of naive or greedy people from attempting the same and help end the drugs world. The real injustice are the people who are there who have been physically forced to commit the crime - Sandra always had the choice

Good Book (4/4 people found this helpful)

I really enjoyed this book. At first i was concerned that Sandra was taking no responsability for her circumstances but by the end she showed a lot of grace.

The conditions she has had to deal with in both Bangkok and Britain is remarkable and the lack of justice when she returns to Britain is disgraceful.

Fair play to her on surviving and on writing a good book.

Unforgetable!! Amazing book!! (2/2 people found this helpful)

Really amazing book- completely couldn't put it down! Fascinating comparsion of life in a Thai prision to life in a British prison.
While you are reading it you can't believe she is going through such a life- and makes you extremely glad that it isn't you!!

Incredible... (3/3 people found this helpful)

This book is BRILLIANT. Extremely well written - an amazing story. The book left me shocked that things like this still go on, in this day and age. Fantastic read, highly recommend!..

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