“The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free.”
Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s memoir of her 804 days, jailed in Iran for suspected espionage - The Uncaged Sky - is a thrilling and gripping page turner. It reads like a work of fiction, except it is all true.
Dr Moore-Gilbert, a University of Melbourne academic, travelled to Iran in 2018 for an academic conference in the field of study she was lecturing in and interested in.
Kylie was enjoying all the things that Iran had to offer- the food, sights and sounds, when on the very last day, when she was at the airport preparing to leave, she was arrested and charged with “espionage”.
In what became a more than two year horrendous ordeal in two different prisons, Kylie was at times beaten and emotionally and mentally tortured. The experience that Kylie talks about, where she was at times kept in solitary confinement with nothing to read and not much to eat is gripping as well as shocking.
Kylie managed to cultivate and covertly maintain illicit friendships whilst incarcerated in the women’s prisons she was in. The detail of how she managed to do this as well as maintain her sanity is simply mind blowing.
This book will get in under your skin in such a way that you are perhaps haunted by what she endured, and it helps to put minor or trivial life circumstances into perspective.
The Uncaged Sky is available as an eBook, audiobook and on our shelves to borrow or reserve.
(Also this book will be featured at our May Online Bookclub - register to join in the discussion).
Susannah
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