MEMOIR

Nobody’s Girl

Virginia Roberts Giuffre

Doubleday, $36.99

Warning: Graphic content

Her name may forever be tied to powerful men – Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew, Jean-Luc Brunel – but Virginia Roberts Giuffre makes it known that she wants to stand alone now. And with Nobody’s Girl , she reclaims her identity from all of them.

The posthumous memoir, which follows Giuffre’s suicide earlier this year at the age of 41, is a devastating read. With composure and candour, the abuse survivor and sex-trafficking activist recounts a short life marred by sexual violence. It started in early childhood at the hands of her father, and proved unrelenting until adulthood. Only fleeing from paedophile Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell put an end to it.

Before she died, Giuffre

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