Virginia Giuffre's 'Nobody's Girl' Wins British Book Awards' Top Prize 6 Months After Her Death
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Updated · BBC.com · May 11
Virginia Giuffre's 'Nobody's Girl' Wins British Book Awards' Top Prize 6 Months After Her Death
10 articles · Updated · BBC.com · May 11
Nobody's Girl was named Book of the Year at the British Book Awards in London on Monday, giving Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir the ceremony's top honor.
The book, co-written with Amy Wallace and published six months after Giuffre's death, details her encounters with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell; judges cited her "extraordinary courage and determination."
Amanda Roberts and Sky Roberts accepted on Giuffre's behalf, calling the memoir proof of what a survivor's voice can do when heard, while Wallace said collaborating on it was the honor of her career.
The memoir also won non-fiction narrative book of the year and had already intensified pressure on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor through renewed allegations he has long denied.
At the same awards, Sarah Wynn-Williams's Careless People shared the freedom to publish prize, underscoring the Nibbies' focus on books by authors who said they had been silenced.
As Virginia Giuffre's memoir wins top awards, why do UK police remain hesitant to investigate Epstein's powerful British network?
With official Epstein files still contested, has a posthumous memoir become the most powerful tool for exposing the truth?