The Life Inside - A Memoir of Prison, Family and Learning to Be Free

A unique insight into survival behind bars, inherited trauma and some of life's most pressing questions.

About the author

Andy West has written for The Guardian, Aeon, 3:AM Magazine, Huck, The Big Issue, openDemocracy, Lead, The Times Education Supplement and Bloomsbury. The Life Inside is his first book.

Summary

A unique insight into survival behind bars, inherited trauma and some of life’s most pressing questions.

Additional text

It’s a rare feat for anyone who works in a prison to capture the smell, the flavour and the taste of the fetid air they share with the prisoners in a book. So rare I can’t think of anyone who has managed it as well as Andy West in this raw and utterly authentic account of his role as a prison philosophy teacher. More and more compelling with every turn of the page, his interactions with his students reveal his own deep and often disturbing inner truths as well as theirs. A great resource for self-reflection and rational thinking.

Product details

• Authors: Andy West, West Andy
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.02.2022
• EAN: 9781529032017
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-3201-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 225 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Free Will & Determinism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education, HEALTH & FITNESS / Men's Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators, PHILOSOPHY / Good & Evil, Autobiography: literary, Ethics & moral philosophy, Popular philosophy, Coping with mental health issues, Teaching staff, Ethics and moral philosophy, Criminal or forensic psychology, Ethical issues & debates, Teaching of a specific subject, Penology and punishment, Prisons, Adult education, continuous learning, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences, Offenders, Coping with / advice about mental health issues