Nobody's Girl
A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
$24.30
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2026
Summary
Now in paperback: the extraordinarily powerful and unforgettable bestselling memoir by the woman who stood up and spoke out about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
In 2011, Virginia Roberts Giuffre hit the headlines as Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s most outspoken victim: the woman whose decision to speak out helped send both serial abusers to prison and whose photograph with Prince Andrew catalyzed his fall from grace. But first and foremost, she became known as a voice…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781837320882 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1837320888 |
| Author: | Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Amy Wallace |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 296g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 128mm x 198mm |
Critics Review
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’ *
One of the best biographies of 2025: A sobering, compelling account of a woman who was determined to reclaim her story. * Daily Mail *
If books can shape history, this is one.’ – Andrew Lownie * Daily Mail *
Virginia Giuffre and Amy Wallace did not write Nobody’s Girl so that we would mourn her. They wrote it so we would read it. So that things would change. This memoir does what the greatest acts of witness do. They do not close a story, they open it outward – into all of the other stories that were never told, all the voices that were silenced before they found a page. – Sarah Wyn-Williams
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 *
Virginia Roberts Giuffre
Virginia Roberts Giuffre (Author)
Virginia Roberts Giuffre (1983-2025) was an activist and advocate for sex trafficking survivors. She lived in Australia with her family.
Amy Wallace (Preface By)
Amy Wallace is best known for collaborating with Virginia Roberts Giuffre on her bestselling memoir, Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice. The book has been a worldwide sensation and garnered four awards (including the top prize, Book of the Year) at the 2026 British Book Awards.
Previously, Wallace also collaborated on two other books: Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company (Simon & Schuster, 2021), by Jeff Immelt, the former CEO of General Electric, and Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Bantam, 2014), with Ed Catmull, then the president of Pixar Animation.
Wallace spent 11 years at the Los Angeles Times as a reporter covering state politics, higher education, and the entertainment industry. During that period, she shared in two staff-wide Pulitzer Prizes.
Since then, Wallace has been a correspondent at GQ, an editor-at-large at Los Angeles magazine, and a monthly columnist on creativity and innovation (“Prototype”) for the New York Times Sunday Business section. She also served as a senior writer at Condé Nast Portfolio.
Wallace’s magazine work has appeared in GQ, Wired, The New Yorker, New York, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Details, The Nation, the New York Times Magazine, Elle, and other national publications. Two of her profiles – “Hollywood’s Information Man” (Los Angeles, 2001) and “Walking Time Bomb” (New York, 2019) – have been nominated for a National Magazine Award.
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