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You'll Never Walk Alone: A True Story about the 'Bangkok Hilton' (Paperback)

by Debbie Singh (Author)
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Maverick House (2 May 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1905379102
  • ISBN-13: 978-1905379101
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 302,772 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Jim Pollard, 'The Nation', July 30, 2006
This book is in another class. I enjoyed it.

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Tells the story of how a Liverpool-born woman rescued her brother from the notorious Bangkok Hilton prison.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars bangkok uncovered, 10 Aug 2006
Honest and often disturbing - but told with a surprising humour - Singh's book is the remarkable story of how a family was split.
In this extraordinary account, Singh describes how her brother was sent to jail, how she campaigned to get him out and how he then dumped his child on her. Not for the faint hearted.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Most different, 30 Jun 2007
By Robert P. Splaine "mrbobsltd" (pattaya) - See all my reviews
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l consider myself knowledgeable about the Thai penal system,
and l certainly learnt things from Debbie.
She shows un-relentless love for her Stepbrother, a
love that normal siblings may not show to their own
brothers and sisters. She loves the family so much,
she near as damn sells everything, and in the end
has to move to smaller house, to pay for what she had
spent, on visits to Thailand, and phone calls. In
the end she in my mind beat the system, as she was
the first person to get a prisoner sent home
(to Australia) but to serve his sentence in his
own country.She got as far as the Prime minister!!
On top of all that, she then gets involved in helping
deprived children, and her fund raising was to say the
least unbelievable.

********Spoiler do not read, if you want to know a
part of the book,l didn't expect*******
I thought her brother could have shown more
thanks for his sister bringing his own son from
Thailand, and l know that is one mean feat!
He didn't even tell her he was released from
of prison. He lives 3 kilometres away and doesn't
even keep in touch. How heartbreaking for her,
and his son.
She didn't take his son to Australia for herself,
she took him for her brother, and the thanks he
has shown, well enough said. I pray if l ever
get put in a Thai prison by mistake l would
have Debbie as sister.


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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A tragedy-if only she understood her "brother", 19 Sep 2006
Although the author did a good and great deed in assisting her "brother" I don't think she should have demanded anything from him at the end. This is known as non-obligatory love which should exist between family members. Of course John (the guy put in prison) was adopted and it seems things weren't all right between John and his adoptive family.

The writer did a wonderful deed in assisting her brother in regular visits, food hampers and filling out the application for a royal pardon which eventually got him a couple of years off his time in the more pleasant Australian jail (to which he was transferred). However, in return she expected him to live with her and her family after getting out, despite not being close at all in the years before he was jailed. As far as I can see, going back to live with this sister would have prevented him from starting a new life in Australia, something he'd never previously succeeded in doing as the family emigrated from Liverpool when he was a teenager. She would also have reminded him of being in prison. Constantly seeing her everyday along with her "great deed" in his face all the time, well, no free minded young male wants that around their neck for the rest of their life. Also, it seems from the book that John isn't particularly keen on getting to know his son who he'd never really known before but in the book his sister judges him for this which she shouldn't really do and if she'd learnt anything about Thai culture she wouldn't. To me, it seems more like she's never lost here judgmental Liverpoodling religious ways. Living with her would have forced him to know his son, which perhaps he felt he wasn't good enough to do, or simply wanted to start a new life.

The main focus of the falling out with John is that he wanted to be picked up by a girl friend when he got out of jail. Well I suppose he should have probably politely asked his sister first if she'd mind but perhaps he thought that whatever he said she take offence. The author fails to understand that this man has not been with a girl for more than six years and had she gone with her sister, when would it end? I think what JOhn was looking for was a free life hence he told her that it would have been better if she'd just sent him the cash every month and avoided any close obligatory relationships even if it meant several more months in Jail. Anyhow who knows, maybe he could have completed his own royal pardon application in time as other prisoners do.

Another gripe I have is the author's view that trying to cash forged travellers checks isn't a serious crime and shouldn't deserve a prison sentence. It is serious. In Australia it may not be as shops may have insurance against that kind of theft, I don't know, but in Thailand if a small family owned hotel cashes the check they lose the money, and most people in Thailand aren't as well off as Australians. Also, I don't know why she bothers to take the vastly superior attitude and some cheap shots at the so called pedophile when she knew nothing about his case. Under Thai law you can imprisoned for sex with a 17 year old and bars don't make it clear who might be less than 18.

Obviously Debbie Singh means well and undertook a lot of effort on behalf of her brother for which she deserves praise. Nobody is perfect of course, but she might also like to understand people a bit better but at least her true nature shows through in the book which isn't always the case so she still gets 4stars.
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