Free

My Search for Meaning

De: Amanda Knox

Narrado por: Amanda Knox

Amanda Knox reflects on her world-famous confinement in an Italian prison—and her return to an "ordinary" life—to reveal hard-won truths about purpose and fulfillment.

Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn’t commit—and became a notorious tabloid story in the process. Though she was exonerated, it’s taken more than a decade for her to reclaim her identity and truly feel free.

Free recounts how Knox survived incarceration, the mistakes she made, the misadventures she had reintegrating into society, and culminates in the untold story of her return to Italy—and the extraordinary relationship she's built with the man who sent her to prison. It is the gripping saga of what happens when you become the definition of notorious, but have quietly returned to the matters of a normal life—seeking a life partner, finding a job, or even just going out in public.

In harrowing (and sometimes hilarious) detail, Amanda tells the story of her personal growth and hard-fought wisdom, recasting her public reckoning as a private reflection on the search for meaning and purpose that will speak to everyone persevering through hardship.

©2025 Amanda Knox (P)2025 Hachette Audio

Amanda‘s insights

I love Amanda‘s writing and her descriptions metaphors. She is a very courageous and kind person.

A lot of content repetition

She spends half the book repeating the same type of issues. Over and over again.

Amanda is tough!

What an ordeal she went through. A very interesting and encouraging story. She has grit and her family sure had her back!

Great insight

Great update on the life she has had with her struggles after the horrific wrongful imprisonment and how she has managed her life. She has an incredible story and tells it well

Wow!

This book is for anyone that has experienced trauma in their lives. Of course the story is intriguing but this book is beyond that story. Amanda is an amazing writer but she is also deep, wise, perceptive and KIND. She put words and explanations to feelings and experiences that, I imagine, many people have but would be unable to articulate. I feel like I understand my own trauma better because of this book and for that I am grateful.

Outstanding. Courageous. Thoughtful.

This book is so well written. So honest. Amanda Knox has come out of a horrible traumatic experience, starting with murder of her roommate and then wrongfully convicted to being a strong, empathic and grounded woman.
The story is heartbreaking and inspiring at the same time. I’m so glad to have the clarity of her story because the press did an injustice to her. Brava, Amanda, Brava!!!!

Wonderful clarification of her life

Inspirational story of forgiveness and acceptance of another persons inability to admit their own culpability in their actions against you, but still be able to give yourself the gift of forgiving them!

Such wisdom

This book was refreshing and full of wisdom. Such an amazing story full of forgiveness not just for others but for herself.

Amanda walks her talk.

I liked her self searching honesty and integrity. I appreciated her humanity. I felt a kinship, being myself falsely accused and having discovered my own self in the journey of healing and resilience. I know that the accusations were not personal, and were an expression and function of my accusers. Amanda tells my stoey too.

an incredibly honest and human reflection

4.5/5. It’s an incredibly honest and human reflection. Amanda Knox, a figure that will always be held in infamy and suspicion despite the evidence. I found the audiobook refreshing and poignant, especially in her desire to be found innocent by those her prosecuted her. I also found sympathy for Giuliano because I understand that to be a lawyer (and to stay a lawyer) is to have unwavering faith in the system. That judges and juries will believe evidence, that the ecosystem works. He holds the blame for the faults of a system in the Knox case, despite it being mostly on the entire system as a whole. The jury and judges who sentenced her are equally, if not moreso to blame as they believed in a story with no evidence.
But Amanda’s candor, her honest reflection and desire for peace make the story powerful. Her ability to meet a man who will never admit he is wrong, for his own conscious or for his faith in a system that most likely needs repair who knows, in incredible. I wish her peace, I wish that the world would understand that she is innocent. That the facts, as black and white as they are, indicate that she is another victim of Rudy Guede.
An incredible listen by a woman who is doing so much good, who is reminding us again and again to look at the facts, the evidence, rather than the painted narrative given by the media. Who leads a life of kindness, and a deep understanding of humanity that most do not possess. Though I wish she could have the life of anonymity so many of us take for granted, the world is a more better, kinder place with her voice and heart having the power and sway that they have.