For the past 30 years, Susan Aldous has been an inspiration to many: Cambodian refugees, terminally ill prostitutes, Thai prison officers, drug addicts, disabled children in Laos and thousands of prisoners wasting away in Thailand's squalid prisons. Impressive achievements for a high-school dropout and former hell raiser who rebelled against her suburban upbringing in Australia, because, as she explains: “I wanted my life to have meaning. I didn’t want it be just three meals a day, getting married, having kids, and dying.” With the help of Dublin-born author Nicola Pierce, Susan now recounts her transformative journey in her inspirational memoirs The Angel of Bang Kwang Prison. 'Something that I find particularly rewarding about writing my book was in knowing that I was giving a voice to those who suffer unimaginable indignities, " she says.

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