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Amanda Knox reflects on her world-famous confinement in an Italian prison—and her return to an "ordinary" life—to reveal hard-won truths about purpose and fulfillment.

Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn’t commit—and became a notorious tabloid story in the process. Though she was exonerated, it’s taken more than a decade for her to reclaim her identity and truly feel free.

Free recounts how Knox survived incarceration, the mistakes she made, the misadventures she had reintegrating into society, and culminates in the untold story of her return to Italy—and the extraordinary relationship she's built with the man who sent her to prison. It is the gripping saga of what happens when you become the definition of notorious, but have quietly returned to the matters of a normal life—seeking a life partner, finding a job, or even just going out in public.

In harrowing (and sometimes hilarious) detail, Amanda tells the story of her personal growth and hard-fought wisdom, recasting her public reckoning as a private reflection on the search for meaning and purpose that will speak to everyone persevering through hardship.

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Powerful Storytelling • Raw Vulnerability • Emotional Narration • Inspiring Resilience • Authentic Voice
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I love Amanda‘s writing and her descriptions metaphors. She is a very courageous and kind person.

Amanda‘s insights

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it is quite a compelling story, very clear and detailed. exposes the flaws in law enforcement globally.

wrongfully incarcerated

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This book was a very compelling read! Amanda Knox is an extremely talented writer, more so than I could have ever imagined. She eloquently details, her life after freedom and her struggles to find the true meaning of freedom. She parts of small doses of wisdom that I find I can apply to my own life, even though I have never suffered the level of trauma that she did. I cannot recommend this book enough! It is definitely one of my favorites, and I am sure that I will read this again and again.

Impressive writing!

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I loved her forthrightness. She was sincere, intellectual, but not condescending, and delicately concerned with the well being of humanity.

How smart, wise, and open the author is.

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I liked her self searching honesty and integrity. I appreciated her humanity. I felt a kinship, being myself falsely accused and having discovered my own self in the journey of healing and resilience. I know that the accusations were not personal, and were an expression and function of my accusers. Amanda tells my stoey too.

Amanda walks her talk.

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4.5/5. It’s an incredibly honest and human reflection. Amanda Knox, a figure that will always be held in infamy and suspicion despite the evidence. I found the audiobook refreshing and poignant, especially in her desire to be found innocent by those her prosecuted her. I also found sympathy for Giuliano because I understand that to be a lawyer (and to stay a lawyer) is to have unwavering faith in the system. That judges and juries will believe evidence, that the ecosystem works. He holds the blame for the faults of a system in the Knox case, despite it being mostly on the entire system as a whole. The jury and judges who sentenced her are equally, if not moreso to blame as they believed in a story with no evidence.
But Amanda’s candor, her honest reflection and desire for peace make the story powerful. Her ability to meet a man who will never admit he is wrong, for his own conscious or for his faith in a system that most likely needs repair who knows, in incredible. I wish her peace, I wish that the world would understand that she is innocent. That the facts, as black and white as they are, indicate that she is another victim of Rudy Guede.
An incredible listen by a woman who is doing so much good, who is reminding us again and again to look at the facts, the evidence, rather than the painted narrative given by the media. Who leads a life of kindness, and a deep understanding of humanity that most do not possess. Though I wish she could have the life of anonymity so many of us take for granted, the world is a more better, kinder place with her voice and heart having the power and sway that they have.

an incredibly honest and human reflection

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What a horrific series of events that hijacked the life of young Amanda and so many others. Her principle of “kindness” has stretched my own understanding of this character trait. Her story will linger with me for a long time.

Extraordinary response to extraordinary story!

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This is more than just a true account of events, it’s a hard-won guide on how to endure suffering, make peace with the past, forgive others and ourselves. It’s the book I didn’t know I needed, arriving at exactly the right time.

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Amanda Knox is both courageous and gracious. This book is a must read for anyone traversing a challenge (doesn't have to be inherently negative).
Amanda shares her story, from her perspective, in her own voice, and with no apologies in this book. It felt like watching a well made, based on real events, movie.
More importantly, for any casual reader who might not yet be familiar with Amanda Knox, Knox is not aimlessly venting, she's genuinely trying to help by sharing her story, in the most constructive way possible.

I am not gracious (when unmerited)... Without hesitation, as a student in italy myself, I know first hand that's just italy and italians for you. italians (even in the media) go as far as to claim that Knox did not grow up rich, and that she had a foster father, trying to rob her, publicly, of a pretty wholesome childhood, as if to say that her life was ruined anyways, or as an excuse for why she might be eligible as a suspect (just because they have nothing tangible on her)... I think that's even more insidious than their degenerate defamations. But that is the authentic italian mentality; externalise, project, deflect, obfuscate, lie, lie and lie some more. Wouldn't surprise me if Knox's italian roommates played a huge role in defaming her, especially to the cops (out of pure pathetic tribalistic envy, and due to the trauma they must* have incurred by living in an extremely chauvinistic society).

NB. Only thing I cannot get behind is Knox's fondness of the Beatles and Harry Potter.

P.S. To not end up settling for a chump like Mr. Robinson, choose to study in Germany, or even France. Best darn advice anyone will ever give you.

Love it! Absolutely fantastic!

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A beautiful, raw story. Thank you, Amanda, for existing, surviving, and being a voice for victims of injustice everywhere. Also, who’s got any shit to ever say to you? God damn. You’re a tough lady.

Inspiring vulnerability

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