Judith Tebbutt tells the moving true story of her kidnap ordeal and the murder of her husband, David, by Somali pirates. In September 2011, Judith and her husband set out on an adventurous holiday to Kenya. After a joyous week on safari in the Masai Mara, they flew on to a beach resort forty kilomet[...]

This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred and ninety-two days, I was torn away from the life I knew and loved, and dragged down to the depths of despair; of how I endured enforced isolation and near-starvation at the hands of Somali pirates; and of how I made a choice to survive by any [...]