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The Damage Done
Peter Woolf
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Description for The Damage Done
Paperback. Presents 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. Num Pages: 384 pages, 8pp, colour. BIC Classification: FXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 268.
'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 ... Read more
'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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780553819335
SKU
V9780553819335
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Peter Woolf
Peter Woolf is fifty and was a career criminal until five years ago. He is now married and lives in Norfolk. He regularly gives lectures to police forces and other groups up and down the country on Restorative Justice. He is employed by the Metropolitan Police as a Restorative consultant, working in North London with prolific and priority offenders.
Reviews for The Damage Done
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 ... Read more
The Guardian
The power of his story surpasses any behaviour management intervention.
Independent
A powerful and searingly honest read.
Eastern Daily ... Read more