The inspiring story of a woman who survived kidnap and being held captive for a year in war-torn Somalia . . .
Amanda Lindhout loved to travel. She backpacked around the world, crossing borders, enthralled by what she encountered. This led her to becoming a reporter, working in war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq. In August 2008, she travelled to Somalia - 'the most dangerous place on earth'. Along a dusty road on her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked gunmen.
Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda converted to Islam as a way to survive. Moved between a series of derelict desert houses, she was given 'wife lessons' by one of her captors and kept herself sane by invoking memories of the world she'd experienced before captivity. At her most desperate she'd visit a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains, in the dark, being totured. She survived on strategy, fortitude, and hope - and risked everything on a daring escape.
Vivid and suspenseful, A House in the Sky is the searingly intimate story of an intrepid young woman and her search for compassion in the face of unimaginable adversity.
