I don’t know how to describe this book, or my expe­ri­ence of read­ing it. Grace is very fun­ny, even whilst reliv­ing and retelling the most hor­rif­ic tale of her abuse at the hands of a cold-blood­ed mon­ster. I can’t believe this remark­able woman had the courage and grit to not only sur­vive what she went through, nut then put all this down in writ­ing (of course reliv­ing it along the way), include her art and her pho­tos of fam­i­ly and her­self, and then pub­lish it to the world. She quite lit­er­al­ly bares her entire soul, and she does it most­ly to edu­cate peo­ple on how groom­ing works, how child abuse affects sur­vivors, hop­ing she can pre­vent even one more child going through her pain. This is so inspir­ing in and of itself, and then you read her expe­ri­ences and you’re inspired again, and again, and again.

Some parts are hard to get into. Many parts are very hard to read with­out grip­ping the book so tight you’ll bend the spine in half. But I found it immense­ly edu­ca­tion­al, enter­tain­ing, fun­ny and trag­ic and authen­tic. I sin­cere­ly believe that every sin­gle male in this coun­try needs to read this book. The women too, of course, but espe­cial­ly us fel­las. I’ll be lend­ing my copy to my son and I hope you read it too and then do the same for the blokes in your life.