"Writing in his prison cell, Simon Roberts, a man in his seventies, tries to make sense of his 'desperate and successful life' - a life dominated and haunted by three connected acts of violence. In the first, at the age of six, he was the victim; in those in later life, the perpetrator." from the back cover.
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