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Life After Life - A Guildford Four Memoir (Paperback)
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Life After Life - A Guildford Four Memoir (Paperback)
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List price R580
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Looking back over the last six, almost seven decades, the images
that flash through my mind are hardly believable - sometimes, it
feels like I'm remembering someone else's life. The truth is, I've
lived three very different lives: the one before prison; the one in
prison; and my life since then. It has taken years to make sense of
it all, but now I've found a voice to speak about it. Paddy
Armstrong was one of four people falsely convicted of The Guildford
Bombing in 1975. He spent fifteen years in prison for a crime he
did not commit. Today, as a husband and father, life is wonderfully
ordinary, but the memory of his ordeal lives on. Here, for the
first time and with unflinching candour, he lays bare the
experiences of those years and their aftermath. Life after Life is
a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of
forgiveness. It reminds us of the privilege of freedom, and how the
balm of love, family and everyday life can restore us and mend the
scars of even the most savage injustice. 'This book captures the
sweet soul of Paddy. Beautifully written. For lovers of freedom
everywhere.' Jim Sheridan 'Paddy Armstrong's account of his
wrongful conviction and imprisonment is as gripping as a work of
fiction. It is an extraordinary, terrifying story. I am familiar
with just about all the considerable body of memoirs arising from
the miscarriages of justice of the 1970s, but I can say without
equivocation that this is the best. Beautifully written. If it were
a work of fiction, it would be worthy of the Man Booker shortlist.'
Chris Mullin, The Observer 'Couldn't put it down, stunningly
written, honest, shocking, harrowing. A horrendous story, populated
with some real heroes'. Noel Whelan, Barrister and Irish Times
columnist
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