The late Virginia Roberts Giuffre won the overall book of the year prize at the British Book Awards for her memoir, Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice.
In her book, co-written by Amy Wallace and published in the U.S. last October by Knopf, Giuffre writes that she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, whom she met while working at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club. She says that she was forced to have sex with Epstein, an unnamed prime minister, and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew. In a starred review, a critic for Kirkus praised the memoir as “a valuable document of abuse, and the strength required to counter it.” Giuffre died by suicide in April 2025 at the age of 41.
In addition to winning the overall book of the year, Nobody’s Girl also won the prize for nonfiction narrative book of the year, as well as the Freedom to Publish Award, which Giuffre shared with Sarah Wynn-Williams, author of Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism.
Giuffre’s co-author, Wallace; her brother Sky Roberts; and her sister-in-law Amanda Roberts accepted the Freedom to Publish award on Giuffre’s behalf in video speeches shown at the ceremony in London. Amanda Roberts said, “This book being a No.1 bestseller for weeks in a row is not an accident. It is a true testament to what a survivor’s voice can do when finally given the space to be heard. She inspired millions, not just to be seen, for survivors to be seen, but called us to action.”
A full list of the British Book Awards winners is available at the prize’s website.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
