AND YOU VISITED ME
A true story of death row friendships
By Penny M. Wheat. Monarch. 192 pages. £6.99
ISBN 1 85424 682 8
At first glance it would be easy to assume that this is the story of a white, middle-aged woman who has a desire to be a ‘do-gooder’, and who has gone soft on the lowest element of our society.
Penny Wheat would be the first to admit that her initial desire in corresponding with a prisoner was to help them, but her book goes on to describe the journey that she has made in having close friendships with prisoners on America’s death row. She shows that the journey has brought about a huge change in her own concepts and values, and that she has gained enormously from knowing some of these men.
