How a Quebec woman survived 450 days as a prisoner in the Sahara Desert

A Quebec woman held hostage by Islamist extremists in West Africa for more than a year is recounting her harrowing experience in a new book. Sherbrooke-born Edith Blais, now 37, spoke to Global’s Dan Spector on her captivity for over a year in the scorching heat of the Sahara Desert in Mali.

• How a Quebec woman survived 450 days as a prisoner in the Sahara Desert