One Day in My Life

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One Day In My Life
First new edition cover
Author Bobby Sands
Country Ireland
Language English
Genre(s) Autobiographical novel
Publisher Mercier Press
Publication date 1983
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 118 pp (first new edition, paperback)
ISBN ISBN 1856353494 / 978-1856353496 (first new edition, paperback)

One Day in My Life is an autobiographical novel written by Bobby Sands while serving a fourteen year sentence at Long Kesh, for possession of a gun as a member of the Irish Republican Army.

The novel was originally written on "toilet paper with a biro refill... hidden inside Sands' own body" during the winter of 1979.[1] and first published in 1983. It recounts Sands' mental, physical, and sectarian struggles over a single day while he was taking part in the blanket protest against the removal of prisoners' political status by the British Government.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Sands, Bobby. One Day in My Life. Mercier Press. Dublin: 2001. p.18