The Damage Done - Tapa blanda

"He could surely have out-miseried most of the "misery memoirs" and bagged himself a bestseller ... But he has written a much more interesting book than this." (The Guardian)

"The power of his story surpasses any behaviour management intervention." (Independent)

"A powerful and searingly honest read." (Eastern Daily Press)

"This gripping memoir stands as an indictment of the prison system." (Morning Star)

'For almost all my life, I've been the person you crossed the street to avoid...'

Peter Woolf's life of drinking, drug-taking and thieving had begun before most people leave school. Spending most of his adult life in prison made no difference to him: life itself offered him no hope. Today, amazingly, Peter is clean and has not reoffended since a life-changing meeting in 2002 when he came face to face with some of his victims.

The Damage Done is a searingly honest and gritty portrayal of a man ensconced in an endless cycle of drugs, violence, prison and depravity who, one Tuesday afternoon in a glass room at Pentonville prison, was forced to confront all that he had destroyed.