Purgatory A Prison Diary Volume 2 [Paperback]

On August 9, 2001, 22 days after Archer--now known as Prisoner FF8282--was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury, he was transferred from a maximum security prison in London to HMP Wayland, a medium security prison in Norfolk. For the next 67 days, as he waited to be reclassified for an open, minimum security prison, he encountered not only the daily degradations of a dangerously overstretched prison system but also the spirit and courage of his fellow inmates.
Purgatory: A Prison Diary, Volume 2,is Archer's frank, shocking, sometimes humorous, sometimes horrifying account of those 67 days.

Jeffrey Archerwas educated at Oxford University. He has served five years in Britain's House of Commons and fourteen years in the House of Lords. All of his novels and short story collections--includingAnd Thereby Hangs a Tale, Kane and Abel, Paths of GloryandFalse Impression--have been international bestselling books. Archer is married with two sons and lives in London and Cambridge.

A tale that is not only important but true. The Washington Post on A Prison Diary, Vol. 1

The finest thing that he's ever written...riveting. Independent on Sunday (UK) on A Prison Diary, Vol. 1