Charles Bronson - Inside And Out

The untold story of the infamous criminal, Charles Salvador - known to millions as Britain's most violent prisoner Charles Bronson - from the unique perspective of his wife Irene Dunroe.

Every other book about Charles romanticises his crimes and violent nature while Inside and Out tries to examine his life before prison when he was a completely 'normal', well adjusted young man, and how deeply loss can affect our behaviour.

The author is in weekly correspondance with Charles Salvador over email and letters and has been invited to visit Charles in Long Lartin prison to inform her research.

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A story of two halves, documenting the life of Irene Dunroe - the first wife of Michael Peterson, now known as Charles Salvador, Britain's most notorious and longest serving prisoner. The story will be told from two points of view, a chapter dedicated to Irene's view from when she first met 'Mick', followed by a chapter dedicated to Charlie's view, and each chapter will have a certain year assigned to it.

As well as documenting Irene's life, the story will show in Charlie's chapters what was going on in his life behind bars, and will focus on never written about before details of how Irene's life impacted his state of mind. Surprisingly (or not) Charlie found out about everything that was going on in Irene's life, and though he didn't acknowledge it at the time, in retrospect he realises that a lot of his violent outbursts behind bars were directly related to his feelings of anger and grief at losing the only people that he had truly loved. His wife and his son.

This is a truly a most tragic love story, and despite Irene re-marrying and having two more children, and living a full life without her first husband, somehow, she has always been drawn back to Charlie, and he to her. Now, over 40 years after divorcing, and both in their 70's, the star crossed lovers seem to be drawn together once again. Irene lights up when she talks about 'her Mick', and in his many letters to the author, Charles can't help but talk about his heart missing a beat and his breath being...