I really wouldn’t have known this was a debut novel. It’s so well-written and has obviously been researched in detail. . . It’s insightful, intense, interesting and really quite thrilling.
Nicola Smith, Book Blogger, Short Book and Scribes. Top 1000 Reviewer Vine Voice
One of the most important books I’ve been involved in launching in twenty years as a bookseller.
Peter Snell, Bookseller, Bartons Bookshop, Leatherhead
Recommended reading for getting up close and personal to the problem of modern slavery. Two women you can relate to—one on the inside; one on the outside. What would you do in their place? Totally absorbing.
Maria Donovan, Author of The Chicken Soup Murder
A captivating and accurate portrayal of trafficking and exploitation. Whilst it may not be comfortable reading, it brings to our consciousness the realities and experiences of this atrocity in an accessible and realistic way.
Kate Garbers, Founder and Director of Unseen
I found this an engrossing read; a real page turner. . . The book’s main subject—sexual trafficking—is indeed dark but there is hope at the end of the book. This is a subject not often tackled in fiction and it should be. We may want to look away but I think Helen Matthews has looked at the issue sensitively and thoughtfully. Recommended.
Bronwen Griffiths, Author of Here Casts No Shadow
A well-plotted well-written international thriller. I am naturally drawn to international thrillers but I had to stay up to 4:10am on two occasions to finish reading this book as it was very tense and interesting.
Ivy Ngeow, prize-winning author of Cry of the Flying Rhino and Heart of Glass
This is a deeply engrossing read—and one which focuses on important issues of our lives today. The novel confidently explores the lives of its two female protagonists and I found the tautly-plotted story a compelling read. Their lives may be very different to each other’s, but this novel explores a shared sense of vulnerability, our need for a community around us, and it also looks at the impact that the internet has had on the way we live today. It is a powerful novel and it opens up a largely invisible aspect of modern society. Highly recommended.