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The Damage Done

'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.

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

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Details
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • ISBN: 9780553819335
  • Length: 384 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 23mm x 127mm
  • Weight: 262g
  • Price: £16.99
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