Nobody's Girl
A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Published:21st Oct '25
Should be back in stock very soon

The book no-one should have to write but we all have to read.
‘If books can shape history, this is one.’ DAILY MAIL
‘Both devastating and uplifting … fearless and frank - angry and empowering. It speaks to the thousands of other victims out there about how to start fighting back.’ EMILY MAITLIS
This is the extraordinarily powerful memoir by the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the inspirational woman who stood up and spoke out about serial abusers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, and how they trafficked her, and others, to some of the world’s richest, most powerful men.
‘Make no mistake: this is a book about power, corruption, industrial-scale sex abuse and the way in which institutions sided with the perpetrator over his victims. . . . But it is also a book about how a young woman becomes a hero. . . . Important [and] courageous.’ GUARDIAN
This is Virginia's story, in her own words. A story that has never been told in full before now.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre is the woman whose decision to speak out helped send both serial abusers to prison and whose photograph with Prince Andrew, now Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, catalysed his fall from grace.
In April 2025, Virginia took her own life. She left behind a memoir written in the years preceding her death and stated unequivocally that she wanted it published.
Her story demonstrates with extraordinary power that victims are made, not born. And that once you come to truly understand the horrifying impact of abuse, you will never again question why a victim stays, or returns over and over again.
Nobody’s Girl is a remarkable recounting of one woman’s fortitude in the face of depravity and despair, and the legacy she leaves behind.
First and foremost, Virginia Roberts Guiffre is a voice of courage and resilience for women
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
· ‘Takes us into unimaginable realms of human suffering ...devastating.’ THE TIMES
· ‘This astonishing book left me reaching for breath.’ JULIET NICOLSON
· Startling ... demands that we read with caution, discretion and sensitivity.’ INDEPENDENT
· ‘The most important (but, honestly, the most traumatic)...
One of the best books of 2025: This may well be the most seismic book of the year. * Telegraph *
A heartbreaking book but a really important read. -- Lorraine Kelly * 'Lorraine' *
One of the best biographies of 2025: A sobering, compelling account of a woman who was determined to reclaim her story. * Daily Mail *
Nobody’s Girl is both devastating and uplifting. It tells the story of how easily a life can be snapped in half by powerful abusers - and the enormous pain it takes to rebuild a broken human soul . But it’s also a tale of justice , what can be achieved when a woman refuses to be silenced, refuses to be blamed. And is willing to call out the complicity of evil around us.
Virginia’s voice soars throughout this memoir - fearless and frank - angry and empowering. It speaks to the thousands of other victims out there about how to start fighting back.
This astonishing book left me reaching for breath …it is impossible to forget the glare of Virginia Giuffre’s headlight exposure of an iniquitous abuse system that can exist and destroy within plain sight. And it is impossible to ignore the urgency of Giuffre’s rallying cry to us all to unsilence the secret code of self-protection wielded by the powerful, the rich and the regal. -- Juliet Nicolson, author of The Book of Revelation
A devastating exposé of power, corruption and abuse ... lays bare the life-wrecking impact of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes – but it is also the story of how a young woman becomes a hero ... important, courageous, tragically posthumous -- Emma Brockes * Guardian *
The most important (but, honestly, the most traumatic) book I’ve read all year. As painful as this book is to read, please, please do. -- Sam Baker * The Shift *
Startling ... It feels somewhat like a chance to testify both on the shocking events that shaped her life and the struggles she faced before death ... Nobody's Girl demands that we read with caution, discretion and sensitivity. -- Micha Frazer-Carroll * Independent *
By retelling from her own perspective, the salacious details of what became tabloid headlines ... Instead she shows the reader the stark truth of who she was then ... It is a personal triumph that she chose to speak up and a tragedy that doing so came at such cost. -- Stephanie Merritt * Observer *
Takes us into unimaginable realms of human suffering ...devastating. -- Sarah Ditum * The Times *
ISBN: 9781529985245
Dimensions: 241mm x 164mm x 37mm
Weight: 634g
400 pages