The Nowhere Girls Av Amy Reed

<p><b>''Empowering, brutally honest, and realistically complex'' </b><i><b>Buzzfeed</b></i><br><br><b>''A call-to-action to everyone out there who wants to fight back'' <i>Bustle</i></b><br><b><br>''With a powerful message about consent on the one hand and a diverse range of female protagonists and attitudes towards sexuality on the other, this is an engrossing and inspiring read . . . One of my absolute favourites of 2017'' <i>Irish Times</i></b><br><br>Who are the Nowhere Girls? They''re every girl. But they start with just three:<br><br> Grace, the preacher''s daughter who unwittingly moved into the old house of a victim whose pain adorns the walls.<br><br>Bold Rosina, whose heart has become hardened by all of the straight girls who broke it.<br><br>And misunderstood Erin, the girl who finds more solace in science and order than she does in people.<br><br>They are brought together by the idea of changing the narrative of a girl they had never met, Lucy Moynihan, the victim of a sexual assault who was victimised further by people who found it easier to believe she had cried wolf than to confront what had really happened to her. A girl who, through the course of one evening, went from an excited teenager who felt wanted by a boy for the first time, to someone else entirely, with ''a voice in the darkness, giving her a new name: Slut''.<br><br>Together, they form the Nowhere Girls, and decide to avenge the rape of a girl none of them knew.<br><br><b>''At once harrowing and heart-lifting, it''s both an indictment of entrenched victim-blaming and a demonstration of what can happen when girls lay aside their differences to demand better treatment'' <i>the Guardian</i></b></p>