The remarkable and shocking true account of the kidnap of Natascha Kampusch in 1998 who shares
her deeply moving story. On 2 March 1998 ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was snatched off the
street by a stranger and bundled into a white van. When she emerged from her prison eight years
later her childhood had gone. In 3 096 Days Natascha tells her incredible story for the first
time: her difficult childhood the day of her abduction her imprisonment in a
five-square-metre dungeon and the mental and physical abuse she suffered from her abductor
Wolfgang Priklopil. A story about the triumph of the human spirit 3 096 Days describes how in
a situation of almost unbearable hopelessness she learned how to manipulate her captor and
against inconceivable odds she managed to escape unbroken. 'A brilliantly insightful
dissection of her years in captivity' Jon Ronson Guardian 'An excellent book' Kathryn Hughes
Mail on Sunday 'Remarkable - not just for Kampusch's account of her ordeal but as a testament
to her indomitable spirit' Daisy Goodwin Sunday Times
