The story of one man's journey into the world of incarceration... He's an art teacher, his classroom's a prison, his pupils are prisoners - those whom David Ramsbotham has referred to as 'a complex mix of the bad, the mad and the sad'. He enters naïve, struggles to survive, but an ideal begins to grow in him: to break the endless cycle of release and re-imprisonment that so many of his students are locked into. But the big question is: who is teaching whom? A book for all who have an interest in social issues or are concerned with the state of our overcrowded prisons and what their role should be - for though fiction, it is based firmly on real-life experience. But it will also attract the general reader who is looking for raucous humour with a rough edge, in a book that won t let him go till he s finished it.
This has got to be one of the funniest and most poignant narratives on prison life ever ... captures the absurdity and banality of prison life like no book I've ever read. Congratulations on a very fine piece of work. --ERWIN JAMES, The Guardian
The book I wished I'd been able to write ... sensitive observations and hilarious commentary ... --ANGELA FINDLAY, Arts in Prison Projects, Koestler Trust
The author spares the reader no detail of what goes on in the hearts and minds of prisoners. The result is not for the faint-hearted ... --LORD RAMSBOTHAM OF KINGSTON, GCB CBE, Chairman of Koestler Awards Trust and Former Chief Inspector of Prisons
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